> a problem with the people choosing it than the technology itself.

Which is, I think, the key point of the OP's article.

And my response to this is:

We need objective, scientific, real-world measurements of PL efficiency, so that informed judgements can be made free of cognitive bias.

This is how science works. Especially medicine. But programmers seem to feel that they are above this stuff.

> But programmers seem to feel that they are above this stuff.

No, programmers are quite below this stuff. Budgets for medical research, treatments, trials are way more than IT budgets. And for typical IT project the underlying point is even if requirements were wrong, changed halfway , software is malleable enough, to be changed, refactored. And all while it can remain in use even during change cycle.