Linked by Takuya Murata on Tue 18th May 2004 06:26 UTC
My physics teacher likes to say that physics like to make problems they face look like ones that they know how to solve. A simple harmonic oscillation was one he frequently used in class, as is presumably the case in physics in general.
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It seems like this was written by someone that hasn't been in 'the trenches' of programming. Jared White made a great point earlier that a major point of programming is the decision on which tool to use. I'd say most people that swear by one language/programming paradigm either had never used anything else, or didn't spend enough time to actually learn what they were using effectively.
As an engineering programmer (as in my degree is a mech-e and I do programming for analysis work at the moment), I switch gears from OOP (Java and C#) to functional (C and Matlab) all day long. I enjoy using all, and each in its perfect spot depending on a programs requirements. It is in this ability to figure out, utilize, and appreciate various available tools that really make a good programmer as opposed to someone that can do miracles only in their language on their system.