Because it's a funny little stereotype that has a grain of truth to it (come on, you've never heard of "old Lisp greybeards"?) and at least in my mind isn't ins

Because it's a funny little stereotype that has a grain of truth to it (come on, you've never heard of "old Lisp greybeards"?) and at least in my mind isn't insulting. At least, if someone implied I was a bearded old programmer, I'd be happy to be included with the likes of McCarthy, Ritchie, Kernighan, and Thompson. Now, if we were talking about Python and someone said, "the main peril of Python programmers is that they'll get apple juice and crayon all over everything", that would be insulting!