However I also think that how you look at the language greatly depends on what actual projects you have been working on and with whom plus personal taste. I've been mostly in finance and accounting and personally love code that is very easy to "read" (definition of readable code seems to vary per person).

Example: C++ has so many things crammed into it that I don't see the value of it for doing stuff that are not high frequency trading. It is like using a sledgehammer to drive a nail in the wood.