[palindrone]

> Having lots of languages available is nice ...

.NET's C# and F# are actually the only choice. C# is old and at most slightly better than Java 8. F# is somewhat better (much more concise) but still behind Clojure, Scala, Frege, etc... I'll also want to mention here that IMO Clojure is now on the forefront of innovations actually implemented and widely used in enterprise class software. STM, async, channels, static types, transducers, etc... and all these things are so easy to use for a newcomer. Every other language have already copied something from it or is in the progress of doing it. When I'm programming in Clojure I can feel I can work miracles - things that are hard or almost impossible in other languages I can write in a few lines of CLojure. Brilliant language. I'd discovered it couple of years ago and I'm still shocked by its power.