(Don't worry - it will be). Just making on joke what a "Lisp advocate" is. But seriously; if you meet people who really understand programming language design

(Don't worry - it will be). Just making on joke what a "Lisp advocate" is. But seriously; if you meet people who really understand programming language design they will have full understanding for other ways of designing a language than whatever is their specialty. After all there is a reason why PL is still a developing field.