Can you give me the gist of it? Hopefully it's more than just "hackers get things done, instead of painters who make beautiful things that are useless." I've already granted that Perl and Python are useful; it's just that there are so many missed opportunities in both languages that it's a tremendous pitty.

Anyway, it's just a fact that sometimes the trivial dominates over the fundamental. I used to be the same way until I studied programming languages at Northeastern under Mitch Wand, Matthias Felliesen, and Karl Leiberherr.