Python is fairly conservative; as far as languages go, probably not the most interesting, which is exactly its charm. I would group Python with Pike and Icon,

Python is fairly conservative; as far as languages go, probably not the most interesting, which is exactly its charm. I would group Python with Pike and Icon, as 2-week programming languages. It takes about 2-weeks of practice to start writing useful, sophisticated programs in them. Icon is the more interesting one of the three, it's a modern SNOBOL dialect with generators.