Personally I started with Pascal back when Perl was still in version 4 and the WWW wasnt all THAT big. I didn't really had those discussions with different programmers, I tried a few new languages and liked most of them.

I feel that there is no such thing as *THE BEST* language... There are some that come pretty close but none does all and has all.

I recently stopped picking on PHP people that picked on Perl and actually looked into PHP. Now I know how to pick back with things that hurt :)

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.