[jronkone]

For the sake of argument (let ((my-favorite-programming-language (find-language "common-lisp")))):

I would like to see Lisp and *nix have babies. Take the best ideas of both and make something greater than their sum.

[strager]

Care to give an example?

Are you referring to Unix tools (grep, awk, sed, cat, etc.), piping and redirection, or shell scripting overall?