I think what you are saying is that the readability of a language is more important than how easy a language is to learn. I heartily agree. Languages that encou

I think what you are saying is that the readability of a language is more important than how easy a language is to learn. I heartily agree. Languages that encourage simple, readable code trump pretty much any other language out there, in my opinion. I can't tell you how many times I've looked at my overly abstract Ruby code and just thought, WTF?! I like Go for this reason. It has more noise (err) than I'd like, but when I look at most Go code, I find it relatively easy to follow and modify. There's no other language I've used that achieves this so consistently.