Comment by peterashford

Other posters have given serious answers. I would add my own: its an excuse for a language superiority complex. It assumes that everyone using "less powerful" languages do so because they just don't understand "more powerful" languages while excluding the idea that they might just find that language X is the right fit for their domain. (e.g.: asm is probably more "powerful" than python, but I'd rather do string manipulation in the latter)