Lisp, Java, and the Hegelian dialectic

This reminds me of the Hegelian notion of the dialectic -- thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. I guess that makes C++ the thesis, Java the antithesis, and C# the synthesis. But Hegelian dialectic is an iterative, ongoing process, so I guess the ultimate thesis, and the end of the history of programming languages, will be Lisp.

Really makes you think.

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I appreciate the amounts of hermeticism you managed to stuff into a single /prog/ post but I need to point out that monad is not an idiomatic abstraction in the Lisp world. it can be done there (even Java has monads now, kind of) but it's just not how it's usually done. aligning yourself with the essence of The Monad would be the ultimate goal of a Haskellite while a lone Lisper would learn how to read, parse, process and redefine the abstract syntax tree of the universe.