Paths to Enlightenment

It's helpful to think of programming languages as paths to enlightenment.

C is being a hermit in the desert. You eat grasshoppers and honey and learn to do everything with what you have.

C++ is self-flagellation locked in your chamber in the monastery. Surely if I try really hard while ignoring the pain, I will be enlightened. Re-examine my beliefs? Laughable! That would show lack of faith.

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Python
Java
Lisp
Assembly
Delphi
J
Haskell
Smalltalk

Python is that fleeting sense of enlightenment that a layperson may be able to achieve through a traumatic event or a near-death experience.  Indeed it is a powerful insight, as we can deign from the countless discourses of Patriarch Randall , but nothing compared to the even higher level of Zen achieved through meditations on Scheme or Lisp.