Yes, I agree. It's a problem much wider than just programming languages, it's an emotional issue in general. As a person who does Lisp out of enjoyment and Java

Yes, I agree. It's a problem much wider than just programming languages, it's an emotional issue in general. As a person who does Lisp out of enjoyment and Java/Erlang/bash for a living, it was good for me to get over the attitude of "my language is superior" and actually open up and learn a thing or two from these "inferior" languages, both when it comes to things that are worth repeating and not worth repeating. If anything, remember that Lisp, Java, Brainfuck and hundreds of other langs are all Turing-complete and therefore equivalent to one another when it comes to computability.