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I've fallen for Scala, and want to use one of the frameworks that support it. Lift requires use of Maven or sbt, both of which are annoying tools. I don't want you to force me to download stuff from the net every time I start a project! With most frameworks, I should be able to download a package that I can put on a laptop, disconnect, and build projects in a vacuum. Lift doesn't allow me to do this... also XML :(
We still build in Coldfusion with core modules in Java. In its tag based days it was annoying but now that you can work in pure CFScript it's a lot cleaner.
I personally use it as my primary language as well, and have successfully used it at every company I've worked for. I'll admit the tag based syntax is pretty ugly, but you can kick out some great apps with it.
C'mon... admit it: you use perl, don't you?
I'm astonished to see so few votes for perl. I mean, c'mon, the whole universe was hacked together with it: http://xkcd.com/224/ C'mon... admit it: you use perl, don't you?
PL/SQL
I had to do a lot of maintenance/enhancement work on an old PL/SQL app a few years ago. There were some interesting tricks in the language, but overall I was happy to escape it and move back to working in something a little more modern.
At work: Java, Scala, Clojure, Python, Emacs Lisp[1], ad-hoc scripting in Perl and shell
At home: C, OCaml, C++, Scala, Java, Clojure, Scheme (mzscheme), Python, Perl, Emacs Lisp[1]
[1] I usually do (require 'cl) with emacs Lisp, does that count as cheating?
Dream environment (unconstrained by existing projects): C, OCaml (or Scala if there's need to be on JVM), Common Lisp or Clojure (can't make up my mind between Lisp-1 and Lisp-2), Perl (I like Python, but I don't see what problem it solves that Perl doesn't).
Considering adding Erlang to the mix (worked halfways through Joe Armstrong's book). Considering learning Haskell (although I am already familiar with Monads, ADTs, pattern matching - from OCaml and Scala - and semi-familiar with ideas behind type classes from Scala's higher-kindred types and OCaml's modules).