Over on Artima, some guy is asking Which Language When?, and looking for unbiased language gurus. I think the problem that he will find is that most people who rate as “language geeks” are also going to have a disposition to a particular language for one reason or another.
I just went and collected some of the better places for thinking about programming languages.
The Pragmatic Programmers are pretty good, but would have a bit of a bias towards Ruby(maybe because Ruby Rocks 
). Paul Graham has some good insights, but has his own biases, as does Bertrand Meyer. Guy Steele would also rate as having at least a pretty good understanding of some of the more well known languages.
Another decent place is Artima.com itself, and Bruce Eckel has a decent idea of Java and Python.
Languages are too much like Editors. It is too much fun to start wars for people to be totally unbiased …. and alot of the experts seem to like making their own.
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