[agumonkey]

It's true that dynlangs sipped a lot of what made lisp better before, that said i'm often tired of comprehension lists, sometimes I really want to have a thread with generic higher order functions.

Clojure has immutable first data too, it can shield you from a lot of issues, especially when working with young devs. I still remember some python code some guy made. 3 files, 5 pages each, tons of loops over mutable dicts. Side effects everywhere. The actual logic fits in 50 lines of code with functional idioms.

All lisps features are now pushed into rare needs/researchy contexts, the mainstream absorbed a lot. See clojurescript electric to see an interesting DSL-y idea. And in a way, I consider django a half DSL (lots of classes are static descriptions assembled in a tree of faux-dataclasses.. it's a DSL without the name or ease).

Enjoy python, but keep an eye on other languages (be it clojure, sml, haskell, prolog, apl, perl6) it's always interesting.