Colebourne's attitude reminds me of an attitude I encountered a lot when I used Perl. Some people would spend a lot of time complaining about how bad Perl is. Meanwhile, lots of people would be happily producing clean and maintainable code with Perl. People who like Perl will probably nod acknowledgingly, and people who don't like it will think I'm an idiot for thinking that Perl isn't so bad.

It's best not to get caught up in the language wars and just focus on getting things done. Which reminds me, I should be getting back to work.