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In the window of Haskell-like and highly readable, I’d throw OCaml and F# out as strong candidates.

In practice your code can be cleaner than Python, deeply flexible naming capabilities including full sentences with backticking, efficient and powerful discriminated unions and types enable near-English domains, the type system keeps you honest and provides exhaustiveness guarantees, domain modules of applied functions are obvious and locally coherent domain grammars, and there is potent DSL support to create mini-grammars for legibility and expressiveness.

I used to write python by hand to reason then type it up in C#. F# is just as easy with a pen, but far more powerful and with a powerful type system and aggressive compiler. OCaml and F# are also highly token efficient languages, beating Python across the board for agentic work.