The even bigger irony is that people using terrible languages and paradigms, like PHP and the original Visual Basic, have historically gotten things done, even if that meant shoving a square through a round whole :-)
I guess the curse of "enlightened" people might be that we think way too much about such things.
I think PHP and the original VB were actually great platforms. At the pure language level they were not elegant (but good enough), but both were not just languages, but a platform which as a whole were great for developing a specific kind of apps.
I guess the curse of "enlightened" people might be that we think way too much about such things.