Uhhh, I never suggested writing lisp in a C style, or ruby in a functional style (well, more so than it encourages at least). That would be crazy. My point is

Uhhh, I never suggested writing lisp in a C style, or ruby in a functional style (well, more so than it encourages at least). That would be crazy. My point is that there aren't that many ideas under the sun. Lazy evaluation, super. Monads, ok. Real-deal, no playing memory allocation and management? Where's that union stashing variables again? Are you sure? Uhhh, fine I guess. (Although I'd rather take the monads.)