[rayiner]

It has nothing to do with python being particularly intuitive and everything to do with it being very similar to every other imperative language you already know. If your first language was forth or PS you'd find factor intuitive too.

[protomyth]

Postscript was around my 9th language[1] and I find Factor pretty easy to read. I might be a special case as I hate reading Python and every time I try an S-expr language I really never get the hang of it.

Thinking about Python, looks wise it is kind of the opposite of any of the stack languages. I get the feeling that you can like one or the other.

1) various 8-bit BASICs, 6502 ASM, Modula-2, 370 ASM, C, Ada, foxbase, SQL, Postscript, Forth, Objective-C (weird listing it out)

[rayiner]

I started with C++ and thought I was just good at picking up languages because I picked up Java and Python in a day or two. Then I realized it was because they were so similar. When I learned Common Lisp I had to do some real work even though ny then I had been programming for 7-8 years.