I specifically didn't want to give an example. I thought it might appear that I was merely cheer-leading my language of choice and undermine the point I was mak

I specifically didn't want to give an example. I thought it might appear that I was merely cheer-leading my language of choice and undermine the point I was making. However since you've asked I was thinking that perhaps something Javascript based, like Coffeescript or perhaps Clojure/Clojurescript or perhaps even Links http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/ http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/ There are probably another 100 reasonable candidates. I guess this leads me to the point I should have outright stated, that given that so many languages have already been written, it is highly likely that any new language will spend a lot of time covering ground that has already been covered by some other language. Surely it makes most sense to start off hunting through all these languages to find something that most closely matches what you need and continue from there. Who knows, perhaps that's exactly what they've done.