I am against dumbing things down, too (although I do not see its relevance to my comment), but for example I have no issues with OCaml, C, Factor, Ada, Common L

I am against dumbing things down, too (although I do not see its relevance to my comment), but for example I have no issues with OCaml, C, Factor, Ada, Common Lisp, etc. It is just a personal preference anyways.