I often like to compare Python and Mathematica to English and Latin. English is not really a beautiful language - it’s a wild mess of different influences, but

I often like to compare Python and Mathematica to English and Latin. English is not really a beautiful language - it’s a wild mess of different influences, but it’s easy to get to a basic level of fluency as there are few rules (but many exceptions due to the many influences). And it’s in use by large parts of the world. On the other hand, Latin is beautiful and pure. It has more rules, but very few exceptions. You can also see how it influenced other languages (hello Jupyter notebooks…) But it’s simply not a very practical language today, as there are few people who use it.