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by pansa2 299 days ago
> python is no longer the "learn in a weekend" language

For the last 10 years, Python's evolution has been directed by professional developers working for large software companies, and they've focused on adding features that help them work on million-line Python codebases.

Even if the language was originally intended to be easy to learn and ideal for small programs, that's clearly not a design goal any more.

Is there a language today that’s as easy to understand as the “executable pseudocode” of Python 2.x? I haven’t found one.