Simplicity doesn't always make something more learnable or more readable. Scheme (R5RS) is a good example of a minimalist language that isn't necessarily easy t

Simplicity doesn't always make something more learnable or more readable. Scheme (R5RS) is a good example of a minimalist language that isn't necessarily easy to read when compared with Python's readability; same is said about its "learnability". I nitpicked those features because while I would agree list comprehensions aren't as readable/learnable to a new user, they do make the language simpler in that it increases the expressiveness of the language for a common pattern. To each his own, I like both list comprehensions and map() - not sure if I really take a side on either one... My example of xrange() in arguing for generators was a bad one because you're right, it is an iterator. I still feel like generators increase the expressivity of the language and therefore make it "simpler" - but again I will agree with you that new users will find it less readable and less learnable (to begin with though!). Decorators I will completely agree, are new user unfriendly and are a complex language feature - I suppose I was arguing for reduced program complexity rather than language simplicity in the context of the decorator addition.