Joey counters a Lisp-snob's assertion that "the good programmers of the world are held back by trying to accomodate the less knowledgeable members of our field."
I counter-propose that we programmers who have mastered the basic human skills of preparing our own food, practicing daily hygiene, social skills and finding people with whom to mate are being held back, image-wise, by uberdorks like you.
This of course, is a classic mode of thinking in a field that is overwhelmingly dominated by men: rather than engineer something to be more user-friendly, this kind of thought says that we should restrict the set of users. Any attempt at usability or widining the audience is seen as "dumbing down". And that's truly a shame, because the nice thing about simple languages, such as Flash's ActionScript or VB, is that it brings people with problem domain-specific knowledge to the programming table
