I wouldn’t call it snobbery. I consider Lisp, Prolog, and Erlang to be the three most profound programming languages of all time. Maybe they lack some utility f

I wouldn’t call it snobbery. I consider Lisp, Prolog, and Erlang to be the three most profound programming languages of all time. Maybe they lack some utility for certain problem domains, maybe they don’t have vast ecosystems today, but all three teach how to arrive at solutions in the most logical, pure, functional way, without using global state. This knowledge is then applicable to any other programming language.