What is this? Watch your speech, because Big Sib has installed the Netpolice; that which does not ingratiate itself to the fancies of the power-mongers shall be expunged.
No service provider should bear, or provide any means to further, this idiocy.
Agreed with your last point. I have read about people who loved Lisp so much, that they wrote Lisp to write programs in other languages for them. Two cases:
* http://www.merl.com/papers/TR93-17/ (Lisp to Pascal)
* Erik Naggum told of his dissatisfaction with C++, and wrote Lisp to do his job for him.
"... I had a calculus book once that said, 'What one fool can do, another can'..."
I have this in Chapter 9: 'The Smartest Man in the World' in Feynman's book 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out'.