Generally agreed, except: let's be careful with the notion of simplicity. I used the word "simplistic" which bears some negative flavor (pointlessly simple?). Lisp is relatively simple and yet powerful, i.e. it is not simplistic. C++ is incredibly complex (dare to write a full blown modern C++ compiler?) and powerful. Not surprisingly though, the simplicity of Lisp doesn't make it easier to grasp.

From this point of view, languages that are neither complex nor allow for complexity can be called "simplistic". They are easy to learn, easy to write code in, and as easy to grow to unmaintainable sizes because of their verbosity. Since we have very few readers here at the bottom of the thread, I will admit that every time I see all kinds of dancing around class instantiation, endless method calls etc in Java, where in some other language it would take a single function call, it reminds me of how kids count the steps out loud when they go up or down the stairs. When you grow older, you don't count any more, it's kind of implied :)

And I haven't found a better measure of quality of programming languages than that proposed by Paul Graham here: http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html

Edit: just noticed downvotes for my previous comment, so no, we are not alone :)