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Why do we speak in english instead of other interesting languages? Between java, python, and haskell (which are the linguae francae of the papers which I tend to read, the first and last having replaced C and lisp during my lifetime) I think python is a defendable choice for minimising boilerplate while maximising potential readership.

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Learning a programming language isn't anywhere near the difficulty of learning a new spoken and written language.