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.
Posted by rob@rojotek at May 20, 2003 07:38 PM