Agree about Clojure. The main reason I didn't choose it is that I thought a good Perlis language should not require learning much that wasn't directly related t

Agree about Clojure. The main reason I didn't choose it is that I thought a good Perlis language should not require learning much that wasn't directly related to using the new paradigm. With Clojure, you have the whole Java platform to deal with as well. Of course, there are tons of Java programmers out there and several really interesting languages for the JVM. I have thought that there should really be a list similar to mine, for people who are already working in the Java environment.