That's very cool, but I've personally greatly enjoyed learning and programming in Emacs Lisp. Not only does its ability to immediately evaluate and hot-patch an

That's very cool, but I've personally greatly enjoyed learning and programming in Emacs Lisp. Not only does its ability to immediately evaluate and hot-patch anything work very well with the way it's used in Emacs, but also it was a learning path to a family of languages which is very interesting and unlike mainstream Algol-based ones.