Given Python has a long history as a teaching language, that strikes me as the kind of grandiose statement without evidence which Perl fans used to be fond of.

Given Python has a long history as a teaching language, that strikes me as the kind of grandiose statement without evidence which Perl fans used to be fond of. Even more so given there are approximately no “non-programmers” writing Ruby and enormous numbers writing Python in finance, data science, typography, EDA, and a billion other places; civilians seem to manage with Python just fine. For what it’s worth, language _really_ built for humans probably looks more like Excel or Max/MSP (or both) than like any traditional language - at least those use our embedded spatial reasoning rather than laundering everything through a text serialization.