Disagree. Maybe there's too many popular ones but I can't imagine there ever being too many toy ones. We're nowhere need figuring out how to make a perfect language. It takes a lot of trial and error to continue to improve.
Is there ever going to be a perfect language? My impression is that even among "styles" of programming languages, they have benefits and drawbacks. It seems more likely that we will be able to understand the problems programmers are faced with, group them, and then make specific languages to tackle each of these groups very well.
Found that in on of the blog posts regarding the OP. Basically, there's been a convergance of certain features of abstraction building, and at least some general outlines of what he refers to as "definitive languages".
