Since things are a bit quiet, perhaps a language war?

When Python:

• becomes homoiconic
• gets conditions
• doesn't conflate variable definition with assignment
• gets real lambdas
• develops better metaprogramming than that ugly class hackery

...then perhaps -- as a language -- it will compare favourably to one of the Lisps.

In the meantime the only real competition for the awesome Crazy Language crown is Smalltalk, Forth and perhaps one of the Hindley-Milner languages (I think the Haskellers are batshit insane, but at least their insanity is interesting). Io may be another contender.