Continuing the ideas that Joshua Bloch gave us, that has started on this post: Joshua Bloch and his tier list of book here we can see an interesting one:

Seibel: Why do people get so religious about their computer languages?

Bloch: I don’t know. But when you choose a language, you’re choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs—you’re choosing a community. It’s like choosing a bar. Yes, you want to go to a bar that serves good drinks, but that’s not the most important thing. It’s who hangs out there and what they talk about. And that’s the way you choose computer languages. Over time the community builds up around the language—not only the people, but the software artifacts: tools, libraries, and so forth. That’s one of the reasons that sometimes languages that are, on paper, better than other languages don’t win—because they just haven’t built the right communities around themselves.

Coders at Work – Page 174 – Joshua Bloch