This is a very relevant question. People don't explore it enough. A related question is, why was PG afraid that Viaweb's competitors would find out about Lisp

This is a very relevant question. People don't explore it enough. A related question is, why was PG afraid that Viaweb's competitors would find out about Lisp and start using it? If smart people did well regardless of language, would that fear make any sense at all?