Programming languages that don't suck

Lisp, Scheme and Haskell are the obvious ones. JavaScript is a nice language. C always has its place. C# might be the jewel of enterprise.

What else is there that /prog/ recommends? I've heard good things about ML. A language that seems interesting from its Wikipedia page is Self, but I'm not too sure about it.

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Most of the lua development team realizes that moving to 0-based arrays now would break just about all the current code around today, and probably cause an untold number of headaches for all of their users. It's not because they think they're smarter than Dijkstra.