A funny synopsis of the statements of various advocates for scripting languages. Regular readers here already know my opinion about constructs like Ruby or Python. But let's take one thing at a time.
JavaScript is everything but cool. It's a necessary evil to make web applications look like native software but it's neither fast nor elegant nor secure. Talking about security: PHP is still a security nightmare and it's not 'dominating the server side' because millions of users love it so much but because thousands of providers have it installed by default as there are so many ready-to-use systems available in the public domain. Perl, of course, is my favourite here and everything told by Joshua McAdams is right (with the exception of Perl 6, when will it finally come?). Python's elegance is evoked once more but OOP and no braces isn't enough of elegance for me. Ruby and "Rails"? Maybe for these Web2.0 kids but if you don't know about abstract data types and algorithms you'll be missing all the fun that is programming. Funniest sentence of the whole text is Ruby advocate Bruce Williams' statement I've taken as headline for this post.