I'm aware of where it comes from. The idea is that people who don't use lisp are so profoundly ignorant, that they don't even know they are ignorant. That's an

I'm aware of where it comes from. The idea is that people who don't use lisp are so profoundly ignorant, that they don't even know they are ignorant. That's an offensive idea to start with. The second thing is that the word used to denote that concept, blub, is itself offensive, and it's used in an offensive school-yard way ("blub programmer"). It's surprising to see people promoting arc with this approach. But reading your post closely, you're saying that blub strictly only refers to people who believe their language is the best and others are no good. In the avg.html article, it also says "How can you get anything done in Blub? It doesn't even have y." and talks about people looking down on less powerful languages. Therefore, a person programming in Java (or assembly or whatever) isn't a blub programmer unless he believes that language is the best, that others are no good, and he looks down on less powerful languages (maybe a more accurate word for this attitude is "snob".) My experience is that most programmers don't do that.