In a perfect world, what would be your language of choice?

4 points by amilios 12y ago ↗ HN

In a perfect world, where there are no implementation problems and languages are not judged by factors like libraries but only on the languages themselves, where there would be no speed issues etc, what would be your language of choice and why?

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informatimago 12y ago ↗

Common Lisp

pnut 12y ago ↗

2nd choice is my native conversational language.

1st choice is thought.

CyberFonic 12y ago ↗

Assuming I have to pick from what's already out there: Python - it has minimal cruft and is expressive.

My ideal language would be something visual, where I can just drag and drop the components and "wire" them up. Writing statement after statement is far from ideal.