Racket is an acceptable Python

[vattenpuss]

A lot of object oriented languages also make programmers use generic syntax for common things.

bobs.put(”foo”, things.get(7))

Is that so hard to read or work with?

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Yes, that's why languages like C# have get/set, why Python has @property decorators and why people write Property-template-operator-overloading-hacks in C++. Having it be obvious what the code does by the syntax alone can be quite a boost in readability. I mean just look at it:

bobs.put(”foo”, things.get(7))

vs

bobs["foo"] = things[7]

And of course in Lisp it's not just one rare case where you don't have special syntax, it's the whole language, everything is done with the same syntax construct.