Python

Developers all over the globe have almost militant attachment to their tools of choice (self included) and are always willing and ready to take pot shots at other tools. In this regard you can find almost vitriolic opposition to Java, C#, VB, Delphi etc by proponents of some tool or the other

However the strange thing is that almost everyone thinks highly of Python. In fact, if you know Python you are halfway to getting a job at Google

There are also a couple of interesting projects in various states of completion, the most intriguing being JPython (think Python for Java, able to use java classes and generate bytecode) and Python.NET (same thing, but for .NET).

I'm playing around with it right now and all I can say it's pretty interesting. The syntax is almost english like and there are no irritating END IFS, END DO, BEGIN, etc -- all that is done by indentation!