"Religion is Categorically Evil" From an atheist? We don't believe in good and evil (As that would require the existence of a God and a Devil). Instead try to realize that organized religion doesn't have anything good to teach, morals exist without religion, people that do good for others exist without religion... to label very few things that Humanity is capable of. The only things that religion gives us (Humanity) that doesn't exist without religion is bias toward other religions, justification for wrong-doing, hate for "alternative" lifestyles... to label very few things that religion does to hurt the overall whole. Religion only hurts, there is no net positive when religion is prevalent. I've never met an atheist that goes on a hate fest either, most of us just want people to slow down and listen to themselves describe their irrational belief structure and provide information as to why we are atheists or why we became atheists. You seem to reference hate a lot in your argument, I dare say that hate is very irrational, I submit that the hate only exists one direction.

I think we should all just go into deep meditation and focus on causing an earthquake to close the well. Also, naked women cause earthquakes too, so maybe we could double up with this one.

I am in 100% agreement that you need to pick the language and/or tools for the job you're completing.

There's no reason to pick any one language over another other than it works within your company's resources (Such as a C# shop that wants to develop an application will probably develop it in C#).

My point isn't entirely about bloat though, I understand also that as technology gets faster, stronger and the like, we have more freedom in how we use these base resources. I feel that it has been abused by so many people these days though. When I went to college, I can say that 90% of my class group were not qualified professionals, and I'd bet that is still true even though they are part of our current workforce.

As for speed, anything that uses XML over a socket is obviously going to be slower than binary inside a memcpy, that doesn't mean that it's not required every now and then.

There isn't any one answer to everything.

My biggest point is "Getting the job done" instead of "Getting the job done right".

People don't seem to know that there is a difference anymore, it makes me sad to think that in another 10 years when even more unqualified professionals get on the scene, my salary will go down even further.

Survival of the fittest I suppose.