I do not evaluate languages in terms of beauty anymore. Instead, I try to identify its niche, where it beats all other languages. For all major languages, ther

I do not evaluate languages in terms of beauty anymore. Instead, I try to identify its niche, where it beats all other languages. For all major languages, there is a niche, where you should use it above all other languages. For toy languages, the niche is usually something like "the single author enjoys developing it". For academic languages, the niche is something like "showcases concept X concisely". You want to design and implement a small scripting language? Look at Lua, TCL, Forth, Squirrel, sh, Scheme, Javascript and IO.