My initial progression of languages was: QBasic, Visual Basic, C++, Java (1.5), Python. Python was leaps and bounds more fun and productive than flailing away

My initial progression of languages was: QBasic, Visual Basic, C++, Java (1.5), Python. Python was leaps and bounds more fun and productive than flailing away with any of those. But today, I'm less excited about it. I've gotten spoiled by C#, that has static typing, and consequently, better tooling, as well as a good measure of the flexibility of Python, through dynamics, lambdas, LINQ. It seems Python is finally getting over the 2.X -> 3.X schism, but that kind of threw a wrench into things for a number of years, as well.