You missed the point. It does not matter the size of your company. Your company is not the end-all be-all of programming. Sorry.

My company programs almost exclusively in C/C++. That doesn't mean that other languages are garbage. I could say something like "I work for a big name company and I have never seen a serious project in Ada/Cobol/FORTRAN/Java/Perl/VB/Lisp/Assembly/Pascal/SmallTalk/SQL et cetera et cetera". And it would not mean anything. My company programs embedded systems, and on the projects I have been working on, C is the best language. This of course doesn't mean that all other languages are useless. Just that we didn't choose those languages for this particular task. Get it?

In addition, I find it hard to imagine someone who makes such a strong claim about benchmarks who has no apparent inclination to show the code. I could say that I ran a test in which Java took 32GB of RAM and Perl took only 3K. It's a pretty pointless claim unless I'm providing some evidence.

It's also a pointless claim to say you've worked for "big name" companies without revealing your identity. I could claim that I work for (or have worked for) IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, Intuit, Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin... But what does that really prove to you?

Whoops, sorry, missed the "Do not feed the trolls" sign. My bad.

Edit: s/identitity/identity/;