Could a Lisp be Blub?
patio11: Could a language ... cater to average programmers and be despised by hackers?Who a language "caters to", who an "average" programmer is, and who a "hacker" is are all social constructs which have no relationship to the objective reality of what features are in a language.  People who wish to assert their superiority are quite willing to do so regardless of the technical merits of the matter.Thus, rather than wasting one's time with meaningless geek-on-geek pissing matches, you should probably just get back to writing software which solves problems for people.  You can do that in most languages -- even in Lisp.