Might as fucking well

Best/favorite scripting language so far?

It seems like Python and Lua are still up there, but I want to know your educated, rational opinions.

I like most of FIOC, about the only thing I found bizarre about it is how broken its lexical scoping is. It still is a very productive language. What I'm most impressed about it is how well thought out and natural is its concept of modules and how it got named parameters right.

I don't like ruby for the simple fact that its author seems confused and couldn't make his mind up on how to do higher order functions and thus it's left with blocks, process, lambdas, all with slightly different semantics.