Oh that’s right! I wish that LISP and Erlang were updated rather than stagnating; they are powerful to the core for this kind of stuff.. but they each stink at graphics and more modern needs and the marvelous thing about any ol’ Turing complete language is that SOMEHOW you can cobble it together to accomplish what you need.
Heck, I’ve done some basic AI stuff in Microsoft Excel. Well, it didn’t seem basic to ME – it was a bunch of worksheets I I wrote linked together with several workbooks and some simple VBA to automate a few things further, but I LOVED being able to see all the calculations taking place.