I've been hearing exactly this argument since the early 2000's when I was myself a smug lisp weenie. The thing is though, that software is by and large a highly

I've been hearing exactly this argument since the early 2000's when I was myself a smug lisp weenie. The thing is though, that software is by and large a highly competitive business and any tool that offered the kinds of productivity gains people claim are possible from specific languages would enjoy fairly rapid adaptation. Witness the rise of Ruby & Rails for instance. To quote John Carmack: To the eternal chagrin of language designers, there are plenty of externalities that can overwhelm the benefits of a language, and game development has more than most fields.