> Python is a super-pragmatic language that sacrifices intellectual elegance to allow people (even, but not necessarily) without a CS/Math background to "get st

> Python is a super-pragmatic language that sacrifices intellectual elegance to allow people (even, but not necessarily) without a CS/Math background to "get stuff done" Is this its elegance? That it exposes general purpose programming and an exhaustive library list to the Muggles? So that people without a CS background can do Real Work? I'm with you on gut reaction, though. Python always struck me as an open-source VBA.