I am not going to convince anyone, I am not a missionary doing conversions, specially from a group that workships statements like,
"The key point here is that our programmers are Googlers, they're not researchers. They're typically fairly young, fresh out of school. Probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They're not capable of understanding a brilliant language. But we want to be able to use them to build good software. And so the language we give them needs to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."
You're definitely not going to convince anyone if the only thing you can inject into a discussion is contempt. The "Smug Lisp Weenies" tried that course; we're not all using Lisp. In fact: their heyday was the great flourishing of the least-Lisp-like languages.
