[fakedang]

Why not C++ though? Learning C++ before Python helped me retain a bias for good programming practices.

[Mond_]

...C++ teaches good programming practices? I thought it mainly teaches you how to be paranoid, and how to keep track of the bizarre interactions of 20 bespoke historical features.

[betaby]

One can say the same about Java, although less of the paranoid part.

[red_admiral]

The moment you have to deal with checked exceptions in a pipeline of lambdas, you become paranoid about your own sanity.

[fakedang]

Certainly better than non-typed python.