> There remains a gulf between a language that sounded a clarion call for simplicity and has slipped a little from its principles and a language that chose the

> There remains a gulf between a language that sounded a clarion call for simplicity and has slipped a little from its principles and a language that chose the red pill and dove down the rabbit hole basically for the sheer beautiful hell of it. I'm don't understand what the difference between Scheme circa 1975 and R6RS has to do with Python. It's awfully circular to claim that Python is beautifully Pythonic despite that it's become less Pythonic even as it's adhered to its philosophy of simplicity. If anything, I'd think that a language that "reads like pseudocode!" to the uninitiated wouldn't require even casual programmers to look up syntactic elements in the documentation, the way some people talk about Python.