I'm from Quincy (separate city from Boston, but I don't bother to distinguish when I tell people where I'm from as no one knows where it is), so I can appreciat

I'm from Quincy (separate city from Boston, but I don't bother to distinguish when I tell people where I'm from as no one knows where it is), so I can appreciate the fact that you're trying to promote accuracy. That said, every article I've read about Silicon Valley for the past ten years includes places that aren't part of the valley, so I'm not so sure it's a great battle to fight. I find the fact that 3 of the 6 languages he lists all being in the Lisp family is a little silly (not to mention that he counts C, because Ritchie was at Harvard at one point even though the language wasn't invented there; but at the same time also counts Scala, for the opposite reasons). The Boston area isn't short of history, computer science-related, or otherwise. If he is trying to pound his chest about the cool things which have come from Boston, he shouldn't have to reach this hard.