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Perl > Python > Lisp > Smalltalk - and none are well suited to typical business applications (good at all of: Security, GUI, RDBMS, Reporting, Distributed Computing, Reasonable Performance...)Ignorance is bliss.
On a much lesser note -- all have much smaller populations than MS or Java.At least you got that going for you. Ours go to eleven.
Ask on the Lisp and Smalltalk newsgroups about successes (and failures for that matter) of using those in business applications. You might be surprised.
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