languages

I wondered what the ideal language to develop graphic under interfaces in is ? Not Fortan Vs C or what ever. I was wondering if something like a functional language would be idea. Ok clearly a functional programming language is totally wrong as we need to maintain 'state' between the events. OK they did invent Object orientation to help out but languages like java and C++ need so many odd looking syntactical clugdges to make things work.

Do you need something like anonymous functions ? I would hope not. Objective C did do a good job in many places especially in saving documents to file but the reference counting conventions are evil.

Still its floating in the back of my mind.