@AnubysIshtar the beauty is that it doesn't need to make sense.
also, totally! it's an Extremely Good way to learn new languages. ruby comes to mind as a language where the thing i suggested would be really easy
something like clojure that can use everything written for java also ends up being a fun language to play with--it has the bonus that you can also hotswap code into your repl until you have a working program
it basically lets you build a bridge as you are crossing it