Then Our Buildings Shape Us: Form and Content in Software Development 
- Speaker: Tim Berglund
- Event: Practical Agile Database Development
The talk draws on examples from architecture and the arts to argue that creative artifacts adhere to a "form" which constrains what kinds of messages they convey. You can't delivery a eulogy in limerick, and you don't sing dirges at weddings. This concept applies to technology, which suggests that we should compare languages and platforms by looking at how they are typically used and what their communities value rather than by running benchmarks. It's difficult to summarize in a paragraph, but the argument ends up being coherent, if not universally accepted.
As an aside, the idea for the talk came from this outstanding book, which has nothing to do with technology, but is worth reading:
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