A language as old and as large and as flexible as Python ends up with a few wrinkles, but designing a successful languages isn't easy and I really admire the wo

A language as old and as large and as flexible as Python ends up with a few wrinkles, but designing a successful languages isn't easy and I really admire the work done by everyone behind Python, especially the vision and invention by Guido van Rossum. A kind of post-experience review of a language's strengths and weaknesses is a good exercise. For comments and complaints that really were influential in the history of programming languages see: Knuth, The remaining trouble spots in Algol 60, Communications of the ACM, 10, 10, 1967, pp. 611--617. https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~asb/teaching/cs415-fall05/docs/algol-3.pdf https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~asb/teaching/cs415-fall05/docs/... J. Welsh, W. J. Sneeringer, C. A. R. Hoare, Ambiguities and insecurities in Pascal, 7, 6, November 1977, pp. 685--696. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380070604/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380070604/ab... Brian W. Kernighan, Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language, April 2, 1981, AT&T Bell Laboratories. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pascal.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pasc...