10 Things I want in a Prog Language

In no particular order

• Image like Smalltalk, but file based source management

• Easy acces to AST of closures

• Traversal API, an object query language

• Prototype based system (not classes) & customizable lookup

• Method namespaces, extension methods, etc

• Custom literals, eg XML document and Regular Expressions

• Something beyond classes and packages, eg interfaces, class boxes, nested classes etc

• Some type information, maybe runtime checks instead of static checks

• No null beyond method scope

• Collective behavior

• Browseable stack trace, hot code swapping, resumeable exceptions

• Strong tools for inspecting, debugging and refactoring

• Everything is an object

• Does not understand