It sounds like what he wants is more "wolfram language" than an actual programming language. So there are efforts in that direction.

(Personally, I'm working on large systems, programming rather than plumbing. What matters is not what datatypes are built in but how easy it is to add new ones in library fashion. So I'm very happy with Scala; look at what Spray does with HTTP to show how a really powerful, flexible language can express domain constructs).