Pro-Lisp Bigotry

I was part of a team writing an web-based job application and screening system (a job kiosk the customer called it) and my team and our customer signed on to implementing this job kiosk using Windows, Apache, PHP5, and the ZendFramework -- everyone except one of our team members, who I will refer to as "Joe". Joe kept advocating the use of Lisp throughout the technology deliberation phase, even though the customer made it quite clear that he expected the vast majority of the job kiosk to be implemented using an enterprise quality technology and all the validation should be done using industry practices.

The fact that the customer signed off on this, however, did nothing to deter Joe from advocating Lisp -- abrasively. Every time our project hit a bump in the road, Joe would go off on some tirade on how much easier our lives would be if we were only writing this job kiosk in Lisp. Joe would constantly bicker about how we were all doing this all wrong because we weren't doing it in Lisp, not even bother to learn the technologies we were actually using, and, whenever fellow teammates would try and gently bring him back into the fold (usually via email), Joe would just flame the poor guy. At the height of Joe's pro-Lisp bigotry, he would regularly belt off comments like, "Well, if we had only done it in Lisp," to such an extent that the team would have been better off if he had just quit (or was reassigned or fired.)

Man understands a better way of life.
This enlightenment is bigotry.