RE: choosing a language for your audience or macros vs syntax?

["Paul Steckler" <address@hidden>]

>   By induction, the only programmers in a position to see all the
>   differences in power between the various languages are those who
>   understand the most powerful one.  (This is probably what Eric
>   Raymond meant about Lisp making you a better programmer.) You can't
>   trust the opinions of the others, because of the Blub paradox:
>   they're satisfied with whatever language they happen to use, because
>   it dictates the way they think about programs.

In anthropology, this is known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, perhaps
modulo the notion of satisfaction.

-- Paul