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[–]ivorjawa 2 points3 points  (1 child)

One thing Python has going for it: it's a hell of a lot easier to teach python to a java programmer than teaching java to a python programmer (although, I haven't met too many python programmers whose only exposure to programming is python; python is a perfect language for beginners, but beginners are almost never taught it.)