The older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate factor in programming productivity is how readable the language is, or how readable the typical idioms and

The older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate factor in programming productivity is how readable the language is, or how readable the typical idioms and usage of that language are. There are a lot of really awesome languages, but they are tremendously difficult to read your own code, let alone someone else’s. You can find languages that are very expressive while you’re writing the code, but that code will be read much more often than the time you spent writing it, both by yourself and likely by other people. For this reason alone, I can really see why python has been so enormously runaway successful.