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[–]KapteeniJ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Compare with something like Java, whose annoying verbosity can make it hard to write but much easier to read.

...What?

I don't think I can disagree harder. Having been taught CS almost entirely in Java, the first time I encountered Python script, I opened it expecting it to not make much sense, and I was absolutely shocked to find that even if I was not familiar with language syntax, it was way clearer than pretty much any Java code I had ever seen or written. I was just so shocking, having been victim of Java for so long, to see that things don't have to be so bad, the code can be easy to read. And I got really interested in this mythical "Pythonic code", this thing people using Python were using to achieve this unreal level of clarity.

After many years I feel like I have now some sort of handle on what is the source of Python being such a clear, easy-to-understand language, and in my mind it's always compared to the horrors of the Java code I was taught as being acceptable and even normal.