Additionally if it's your first exposure to a non-Algol language, you're going to have a hard time... you definitely won't feel comfortable quickly. But at leas

Additionally if it's your first exposure to a non-Algol language, you're going to have a hard time... you definitely won't feel comfortable quickly. But at least going from, say, Java to Python, you can quickly feel fairly comfortable writing Python code just like you would Java! (Your coworkers who understand "Pythonic" might hate you though.)