No one can convince me that Python is an easy or simple language. For parentheses, I find Racket and in particular Scheme to be enjoyable. My primary reasons a

No one can convince me that Python is an easy or simple language. For parentheses, I find Racket and in particular Scheme to be enjoyable. My primary reasons are that it creates a massive amount of regularity and consistency in the language, of which there is none in Python. I had my girlfriend at the time take the How to Code: Simple Data course on edX, which uses the Racket learning languages. Not once did I need to answer a syntax question. Not one complaint about parentheses. She had no prior experience programming. I find the people who whine and moan about parentheses are usually ones who have massive preconceived notions of what programming should look like or are so deep in some other language they are resistant to change. I honestly feel like the best textual syntax is something like ML (as found in F#) or Scheme. Anything else is basically just random tweaks and way too much time has been wasted on textual syntax, which is conceptually bounded in terms of its expressiveness. But programmers and computer scientists are extremely myopic. Somehow we graduated from punch cards to text files and have plateaued ever since. > decent lisp-friendly tooling with a low barrier to entry, and DrRacket provides that I'm not really sure what the commenter meant by that, but in my experience, all I ever needed was the auto-formatter and parentheses matching DrRacket provides. Matching delimiters occurs in any language, it's just that you have more of them.