······@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Wilson) writes:
| The main defense seems to be that "I use it already, and other
| people use it already, so we're going to stick with it and
| recommended it to others, whether or not it's fundamentally lame."
| (Sorry to put it in such an extreme way, but that's pretty much how
| I see it.)
Most langauges are lame, and their proponent's positions sound just
like what you've described.