On the one hand, the design of Python implies that they think the natural language parts are important. On the other hand, yes we should confirm things that are

On the one hand, the design of Python implies that they think the natural language parts are important. On the other hand, yes we should confirm things that are our intuition says are completely obvious, otherwise when our intuition fails (as it frequently does, see the point about Python) we end up optimizing the wrong thing.