So, like I said in the post (but perhaps didn't make clear enough) is that there are plenty of options for when scaling isn't too much of an issue. But you take

So, like I said in the post (but perhaps didn't make clear enough) is that there are plenty of options for when scaling isn't too much of an issue. But you take a look at Twitter (Ruby/rails and now scala, I think? which kinda goes towards my point) and facebook (hacked up php and made it compile). My thoughts were focused on a language that you could start something small in (aka easy enough to use), but that could scale up reasonably well.