Interesting. I did a quick tally from the comments to that blog, and ran the same statistic for all languages mentioned with 2 or more positive or negative comments. Ok, this is not very scientific either, or statistically significant, but note that only comments dated before Sept 4th were counted, so any inspired by this thread would not skew the results. (Yeah, its a slow Friday) 

                           Percent    Number of
                           Positive   Comments
Java    ====                  20        5
Cobol   ==========            50        2
Ruby    ==========            50        2
Lisp    ==========            50        2
PHP     ==============        71        7
Python  ===============       75        4
Perl    =================     85       20

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