You summed up my thoughts pretty well.

Also thanks for pointing out Quipper. After reading about Plankalkül, my wife asked me if there are languages that are too heavy for today´s computers.
It´s pretty exciting that my wife actually bothers about programming languages...

Edit: I know the TIOBE index already and I´ll keep an eye on it. What I like about the tool on soundforge is that I can define my own set of languages.