What do I want out of a language

• Lazy evaluation! Along with map, reduce, where kinds of operators.
• Familiar syntax. I'm used to C flavoured languages, so expect things like {} for blocks, a.b.c for member access.
• No destinction between calling a method and accessing a property (e.g., I shouldn't have to care if foo.Length needs a pair of brackets or not).
• Useful standard library
• Good module story
• Top level functions
• Types, probably. But if I'm having types, I want to be able to trivially declare (e.g) a size type that's got the same operators as int, except negative values throw and assigning a count to a size is a compile time error.
• Thrown exceptions