I admit it, I like LISP. There are a certain set of programming problems that it handles elegantly. I feel the same about AWK, BASH, SQL and even JAVA. Each language has a sweet spot, that domain of problems it is well suited to solve. While other languages can address the issue, some are more painful than others.
My "perfect world of programming": Allow the programmer to solve the problem using the correct tool. That is, remove the "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" attitude. I am sick to death of OR mapping in Java, as an example. If there were some way to build pieces using the proper tool and then combine them into a complete solution. See SEWER.
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