it depends on the quality of developers on both sides of the fence

Paul Graham had a point about Java programmers compared with (in this case) Python. :-)

I do know great people that use Java, but still... I think he has a point.

(I'm no Python fan, so Graham probably doesn't care about my opinion. :-) I guess I could get used to the white space craziness, but it bores me. A nice lisp version might tempt me if I can choose language.)