What if you're the author of a famous textbook and you find that your pseudocode reads more like Python than Lisp and that students on average prefer Python? Is

What if you're the author of a famous textbook and you find that your pseudocode reads more like Python than Lisp and that students on average prefer Python? Is that a legitimate reason? If not, you should probably send a nasty email to Norvig explaining his illegitimacy.