despite propaganda the market figures things out in the end (Ed: bold letters added).

Exactly. Despite the fact that Smalltalk and LISP have been gravely overlooked in the commercial scene, they're eventually being discovered as not all that worthless after all. The fact they haven't been in widespread use so far has nothing to do with their suitability for it.

You didn't say they were bad languages - but I'd consider the assertion that C is better than them a pretty strong one. It is not, unless you're writing a kernel or a hardware driver or such (how often do you have to do that).

Makeshifts last the longest.