Companies see programmers as a fungible resource. There are far fewer Scheme programmers around than say Java, C# so companies will go with those "popular" lan

Companies see programmers as a fungible resource. There are far fewer Scheme programmers around than say Java, C# so companies will go with those "popular" languages so that their cost of programmers is reduced. Stupid, false economy by PHB's - but that's life! Clever entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham :-), have used Lisp / Scheme to launch empires. Savvy technically competent entrepreneurs will trump PHB run rust-belt companies over and over again.