Actually, anecdotal evidence that there exists in this world at least 1 clueless idiot who happends to use doohickey X (in this case, java), is not proof or even indication that doohickey X is bad. For someone who is very aware of mathematics and logic, one would expect this to be quite obvious :-)

Fortunately, there’s an analogy to this observation: Anecdotal evidence that there exists in this world at least 1 logic-impaired blogger comparing his favourite doohickey Y (let’s say, for argument’s sake, lisp), to being ‘godlike’, is not proof or even indication that users of doohickey Y are all elitist bastards.

That second observation seems useful somehow.

I don’t mean to impinge on your stance here; not writing AI projects in the language used by the leading researchers is certainly a strange and probably ill-fated choice, but I seriously doubt these guys would have gotten anywhere with LISP, either. I’m just questioning the implications of this post.

I know pointing and laughing at idiots is fun, I mean, there’s a reason American Idol is such a successful enterprise, world-wide no less. Perhaps I overreact.