Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.
People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.