I'd like something that has everything that Common Lisp has but with the ease of Perl. Ruby's somewhere in that spectrum, but I'm pretty sure we could do better by ditching more syntax. IOW something that has reliable, predictable macros and syntax, but with just a little more visual cues and a lot more readable and standardized built in function names than Lisp (possibly stealing and extending scheme's punctuated names).

And really we should lose all or all but one sigil the whole $/@/% thing is just messing up generic calls.