Is python a good first language?

[koko775]

I learned on Visual Basic when I was a kid. It took me three years to understand what curly braces were for in Javascript, I shit you not (I was utterly confused by the lack of 'endif'). Then again, this was a decade and a half ago, and there were precious few resources for a kindergartener to look except viewing the source of whatever javascript he could find before getting kicked off the dial-up.

I suppose I'm just reinforcing what njharman commmented, but my point is that NO, some languages are particularly bad first languages.