How can it possibly be that for something as important as software, and for languages that are a decade old, there is 'inadequate data' to support a language decision, and if the data is in fact inadequate, how can it be that it's not worth spending any time or money getting some data? Or, if it's another case of "make the decision, then do the staff work", what does it say that nobody even bothers to pretend to justify the decision. :(