Reading some of these "Road to lisp" stories (thx, Lars) does make me wonder... How well do people know a programming language before moving on to a new one? The stories do not always make sense. I mostly got upset by some people claiming ruby is better than python, whereas I *know* ruby, and I *know* it isn't. I would like people to demonstrate to me where ruby provides a truly higher level of abstraction than python. Please, enlighten me.

Anyway, I expect to raise to a new level of abstraction in lisp (I believe I maxed out in python a while ago). I also fear it won't come with as many "batteries included" as python.