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it's more along the lines of "if we don't argue, then the thread will be off the front page soon enough"
You're probably right. But I like to think the truth is somewhere between what I said and the Haskell people being too timid to argue. The Python crowd is easily dismissed from the conflict; on the whole they complain about
[i]Guido the Arbitrary
[i] more than anything else.
Only in certain domains
Oh I completely agree. But if you had to pick a language before being told what you were going to do with it, C is basically the least-worst option.
Would you program a website in C? actually don't answer that
I'll tell you this: I have done so. Leaving maintainability aside, it's not nearly as bad as people seem to think and in my experience the truth is almost no one who writes C is willing to do web development.
But to provide a reasonable answer to your question: no, it wouldn't usually be my first choice.