I disagree with the whole bad meme in languages, languages are a way to express human thoughts in terms the computer can understand. As such I don't think that

I disagree with the whole bad meme in languages, languages are a way to express human thoughts in terms the computer can understand. As such I don't think that we can qualify anything as truly bad or evil moreover things can be dangerous, complicated or abstract. People think very differently so while one thing may be difficult to comprehend for one person, it may be very easy to comprehend for another. I tend to subscribe to the "uncle Ben" (Spider Man reference) theory of software development, and that is with great power comes great responsibility. I personally like the power of Lisp and it certainly takes a certain kind of thinker to appreciate it. It's not a better or worse kind of thinker, just different. As well, I am sure there is a guy out there that's thought process would be complemented by GOTO type procedural jumps. There is no one size fits all languadge that is why we see so much diversity in them. In the two views thought you can see the age old tension of art or science in programming. One one had it is born out of mathematics and attracts the personality type that likes the world to be concrete. At the other end of spectrum programming is probably one of the most expressive activities that we humans can engage it, it is an art of pure expression, one views it scientifically and the other views it creatively. One looks for structure and order the other looks for freedom and possibility. Neither is right or wrong, they just have different ambitions. Given that, it is easy to see why one branch took root in business and the other in academia.