That's why I think people should take a look at the next generation of Rebol http://www.red-lang.org/ http://www.red-lang.org/. Fast as C, expressive as Lisp,

That's why I think people should take a look at the next generation of Rebol http://www.red-lang.org/ http://www.red-lang.org/. Fast as C, expressive as Lisp, and more readable than Ruby...well, that's the goals at least ;)