Religious wars

Today one of my co-workers asked me in which language do I feel coding for our next project. Perl, Mason, Ruby on Rails, PhP, Java, etc.?

I'm old. I don't fight religious wars in terms of programming languages anymore. I guess, the last one was Java around '96 when people got tired of debugging C pointers or dealing with friendly classes in C++. Java is popular but hasn't displaced C nor C++ (actually both are in high demand nowadays). Also, long long time ago, there was an article on Byte (remember Byte?) that said "Is UNIX dead?". That was Microsoft announcing Windows NT. Not only UNIX is alive and kicking, it has a new incarnation called Linux. Even the Mac has UNIX! So, to go back to the original point: never, ever, ever, fight religious wars in terms of programming languages. If you plan to, do it in the name of theory: get a new lower bound, solve NP=P, and things like that.

My answer to the first question: I'm agnostic. I might be rusty but I'll code in anything.