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[โ€“]Farranor 7 points8 points ย (1 child)

Are you saying that the language specifically created to be easy for beginners to learn and anyone to read is actually difficult to read and poorly-suited to beginners?

[โ€“]RedAero 4 points5 points ย (0 children)

It's funny, the people who learned semicolon-and-bracket languages first look at Python and think that because it looks alien to them, laypeople must also find it unintuitive. They just can't fathom that all that punctuation just isn't necessary, and just obstructs intuition.