LISP advocacy

I don't understand it. Why on this board would you bother advocating LISP?

Background: I am a researcher and I use LISP everyday. It is fine. It has quirks but it is flexible and lets me do what I want to do, if I need raw performance I use a lib or the ffi and call some fortran.

But why on this board bother advocating LISP? These kids are just going to keep on using languages which have ignored the past 60 years of programming languages research. Perl? Reference counting? come on! Python? the most modern of the big 4 scripting language but still it lets its lame syntax remove all sense of usefulness from it. 1 line lambdas? Come on. Still no real macros  poor OO support and shitty stdlib. Ruby? There is no excuse for the poor performance of ruby, smalltalk makes it eat its dust. Why not just use smalltalk jesus christ at least smalltalk was consistent and has a community of expert devs rather than some frothing idiots. Ruby's community sucks, ruby is slow. Ruby is massively inconsistent.

http://daily.bluebones.net/2006_09_01_archive.html good examples of python being retarded.

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Colossal failure

That's an indian faggot, not a sand nigger. And he's a faggot not because he's indian, but because he's doing stupid shit to a cobra. Indians hate sand niggers as much as the next guy, you just can't call them sand niggers. Furthermore, India doesn't have sand deserts like sand nigger countries. And yes, what you see there is a cobra, not a python. As if all this fail weren't enough, you forgot to use [ code ].

Yours, my friend, was a failure is of unprecendented proportions.