Want to be like Hamming? Here's how:
In summary, I claim that some of the reasons why so many people who have greatness within their grasp don't succeed are:
        * they don't work on important problems,
        * they don't become emotionally involved,
        * they don't try and change what is difficult to some other situation which is easily done but is still important,
        * and they keep giving themselves alibis why they don't.
        * They keep saying that it is a matter of luck.
I've told you how easy it is; furthermore I've told you how to reform. Therefore, go forth and become great scientists!

Source: http://paulgraham.com/hamming.html

http://lout.wiki.sourceforge.net/FAQ

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout

It's a pity that this hasn't gotten more attention. Apart from the extensive use of @, the functional language that Lout uses seems pretty flexible.