Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.
There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.