Maybe. We must remember that Python was designed at the very end of the 80s so what was normal for developers back then could be unexpected nowadays. An example

Maybe. We must remember that Python was designed at the very end of the 80s so what was normal for developers back then could be unexpected nowadays. An example: the self in Python's OO is a C pointer to struct of data and function pointers. It should be perfectly clear to anybody writing OO code in plain C at the time (rising hand.) Five years later new OO languages (Java, Ruby) kept self inside the classes but hide it in method definitions.