My problem is: I already _know_ that LISP is the best language(-family) ever and probably nothing in future will change that.
And meanwhile I accepted python for daily use because it has so many libraries.
i feel that newer languages add a more complex syntax without necessarily simplifying the the process. though here i feel that ruby and python have a rather nice syntax, and it's debatable which is actually easier to read.
for my part, i like the minimalistic syntax of either lisp or smalltalk, because they make it easier to reason about the code once you get used to it because there are not so many syntactic elements that i need to keep track of. but both do take some getting used to.
maybe ruby and python today feel easier to pick up because we start learning with rather complex syntax.
while the basic bricks are much easier to understand, maybe it does take more skill to use them to build complex systems than if you have a lot of specialized parts...