Python always felt well designed to me. Slow yes but it felt the the author really thought about how the language would go together. This is mainly a comparison

Python always felt well designed to me. Slow yes but it felt the the author really thought about how the language would go together. This is mainly a comparison to the other scripting languages available. Pick your poison shell #expand all the strings, but those pipes are nice, why can't more languages have pipes. awk #not a bad language, but very very small, and an AWKward(see what I did there) implied data loop perl #can do anything but the syntax is, well it is a real frankenstein monster of a syntax python #well designed syntax, has a strange block structure but at least it is always nicely formatted tcl #all the strings! but other than that not half bad ruby #pretty, but wow, that is a lot of magic php #just graft on whatever to the language as you need it, don't worry about how it all fits together.