Well, I tell you what: wherever you here English language, be ready that working people are going to be treated more or less like dirt, banking system is going to be a too big of a sector of the economy and many other problems. That is cultural, it is not easily fixable. US was and is culturally English civilization, and this is like a death sentence.

C# is good for you resume. It is important nowadays, a lot.

Well, I don't care for my resume, since I recently started a Startup with a friend. I have a lot of experience with Java, and I'm learning Scala as a server side technology for upcoming projects, and Groovy as a scripting language to use with Gradle. Just wondered which language would be a better choice to use with Unity3D in our 3D projects. I think C# is good, but as verbose as Java, that's the reason I had to think that Boo would be a better choice...

Dunno, OS X is always FreeBSD for me.

Reliability is not the only measure of quality. I, for example, like Compaq and HP laptops, even though they are not most reliable.

It might be always positive like news in DPRK, but seriously, it does not matter positive or negative - as soon as they do not touch real issues (healthcare, fraud in courts etc.)

Cloud = !Privacy.

...whatever local radio plays.

You don't have a preference? Nothing stands out as better than the other? Can't even give us a genre?

Most deeply passionate are people in manic phase of bipolar disorder (2.6% of USA population).

No. Otherwise open source would not exist.

... because it is hard to compete with strongly typed, optimized in runtime code.

Yea. If you get the same program in two different languages, you would expect the faster language to win, it can do a more thorough search. I glanced at the results of the previous competition and the first page was drenched in C++. It is too bad that Clojure wasn't offered as a language in this competition, I remember hearing that it's performance is right up there with Java.

Maybe I should do a on the correlation between language speed and ranking next.