That's so true. I wish someone would come up with a language where a wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, and message passing styles, could find convenient expression.
EDIT: This comment is almost an exact quote from somewhere. Bonus points to whoever can identify where.
"Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, and message passing styles, find convenient expression in Scheme."
Bonus points: Elixir has compile time macros and an AST with a representation that is similar to Lisp.
That's actually cheating, you know :). Lisp pretty much is AST. It's a fun fact about Erlang that it's not directly compiled to BEAM, but is first translated into a very strange, almost lovecraftian Lisp. I've worked with Erlang commercially for some time and ever since learning about parse transforms I kept wondering why they didn't just clean up the "intermediate language" syntax; they'd have a decent Lisp instead of a parallel Prolog.