@feld @abnv Okay, let me try to explain my thinking a bit -

A caveat - if I were to make this chart today, I would swap the positions of Erlang and Rust.

Keeping that in mind, I made this chart so that each axis broadly makes sense. Lawful languages tend to stick to rules and the only surprises are usually how much of a stickler for rules they are. Chaotic languages on the other hand, love their quirks / special cases. "Good" languages are usually languages with academic backgrounds, whereas "Evil" languages sacrifice some ideals for practicality.

With those definitions, the alignment for each language broadly makes sense to me. Lisp for example, is an academic language, yet a hackers tool, quirky, yet very regular. Hence true neutral.