Ah I didn't realize Python's limitations (if it has them here) were part of the mix. I strongly agree with your general point and will go one further: this has

Ah I didn't realize Python's limitations (if it has them here) were part of the mix. I strongly agree with your general point and will go one further: this has a huge impact on the kind of system that over time gets developed in that language. It conditions what gets written, which conditions what's easy to do next and eventually what's possible to do next. By making different things easy, languages bias the programmer toward thinking different thoughts. I wish more people would figure this out: it would make discussion of these things much more interesting. (Instead, all we really do is comparison of code snippets in different languages, which kind of misses the whole point.)