(you tamp down a little with your rudeness - why would multiple decades old tech be 'magical') Prolog with clpfd and chr, Mozart/Oz, Sql, Clips. Libraries like

(you tamp down a little with your rudeness - why would multiple decades old tech be 'magical') Prolog with clpfd and chr, Mozart/Oz, Sql, Clips. Libraries like gecode, java choco. There aren't any new ways of programming that have been invented. There's basically the mathematical programming (constraint/logic/relational/linear), functional, procedural, oo, concurrent, stack. You're not going to come up with something new during a session of lisp hacking. You'll just reinvent the above multiple times.