I've spent soo much time struggling with Python over the years, traveled across Europe for PyCon and tried to tune into the community. I really wanted it to be

I've spent soo much time struggling with Python over the years, traveled across Europe for PyCon and tried to tune into the community. I really wanted it to be the good enough Lisp that Norvig claims it is. But in the end I always come out of it swearing to never touch the inconsistent, arbitrary, pile of exceptions again. Conceptually, it's C++ in scripting language clothes.