Fave Language? Wish List for Future Languages? (Score 1)

I'm a software guy, and have lots of opinions on programming languages, software dev, etc. I consider myself average in skills, and I would be interested to hear the opinions of someone who may be vastly more intelligent then me.

That said, my questions:

1. What is your favorite language to program in, and why?

2. If you were to create a new programming language from scratch, what would it look like? What would its capabilities be?

3. What do you think the biggest problem with software today is? I.E. quality/bugs, bloatedness, development time, cost, etc?

Regards,
Explosive.