I might argue that it isn't quite right (or politic) to call those who resist technological changes "idiots" so much as to observe they often have goals which cannot wait for the ideal expressive system. People love python not because Python is the platonic programming language, but because it does what they need it to do right now. Ditto (often) for Lisp.
It is easy to point out an example of forward thinking languages like Mathematica, and who knows, perhaps it will be the template upon which languages are built in the next 100 years. But if it is, there will be tons of other technologies which _didn't_ make it but which might have seemed equally advanced. Early adoption is always a risk, and few people want to deal with it when technology exists now that solves their problem now, however sub-optimally. That is hardly idiotic, Xah. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list