Pike - The Language of the Semantic Web?

"As a language, Pike is much better suited for the Semantic Web
than Java or C#, since it provides multiple inheritance, sets, relations, and
dynamic arrays." Dynamic Arrays, Sets, Relations, yes these things would
be new to a Java programmer! And I've being pining for a language that supports
MySQL and SANE out of the box.

http://pike.ida.liu.se

The RISE project:
http://www.ida.liu.se/rise

Well I still have my WebL stuff around somewhere that was cool man:
http://research.compaq.com/SRC/WebL/