What I've noticed about Python is that very few people learn it at a stage when they can make an informed evaluation of programming languages on their merits. A

What I've noticed about Python is that very few people learn it at a stage when they can make an informed evaluation of programming languages on their merits. And they're not even quite clear on the difference between Python, its libraries, tools, and so forth. They (i.e., we) haven't even learned the entire language. Come for the libraries, the community, jobs, and productivity. Stay for the programming language. It wasn't too long ago that PG said Python programmers were smarter. http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html