It was a wonderful intro, revealing a number of aspects of both personalities. And that's nowhere near all. There is a lot of meaningless hype about languages. It is platform independent and can be run within a Web browser. Good programming languages matter.
Good programming matters more than good languages.
No language will solve all our programming problems. In connection with this, Brian cited the anthropologist Benjamin Lee Whorf. The previous morning we had been treated to John Ousterhout's view of language politics at Sun. FAQs are indications that the primary documentation has failed. No one ever died from too much documentation.