"From the interview with Tom Love, co-designer of Objective-C: "Does productivity depend more on the quality of the programmer or the characteristics of the programming language? Tom: The effect of individual differences will far outweigh any effect of the programming language. Studies from the 1970s show for programmers with the same educational background and same number of years' experience, the number was 26:1 individual differences. I don't think anybody claims that their programming language is 26 times better than somebody else's." I wonder what others think of this, especially in light of Lisp vs. blub debates?" - Ajay Kapal