In my experience, the best programming languages for just writing programs are those which have "the structure of water" as a zen enthusiast I once knew explained it. They can be deformed infinitely, without stress, to fit the shape their environment requires.
So, yes, I really and truly do prefer a multiparadigm language with a reasonably small, general working vocabulary, that doesn't make design choices for me. I like languages where object-oriented and functional programming (and imperative, and stream-oriented, and data-directed, etc) are all Things You Can Do rather than being The Only Way The Language Works.
Looking back on my own programming career, I find that the languages I have liked best (Lisp, C, Tcl) are very much like this description. The languages I have tried and given up on (Perl, Java, Python, C++) are more or less the opposite (Perl and C++ were designed to fit any user, but grew to be unwieldy and demanding).
