He quotes: For example, LISP, Python, and Ruby all offer beautiful and concise constructs for operating on lists of things. This might be a matter of taste, b

He quotes: For example, LISP, Python, and Ruby all offer beautiful and concise constructs for operating on lists of things. This might be a matter of taste, but macros, void pointers, lack of closures, etc. don't really spell "beautiful and concise" to me. And I think that's what the original quotation is about - you can get similar things done in Java using anonymous classes, and C using function pointers, and probably more or less any language if you try hard enough, but it's just neither beautiful nor concise.