I found both Python and Ruby a lot harder to learn. Both have a lot of context depending stuff, are inconsistent (print not being a function in Python), hard to

I found both Python and Ruby a lot harder to learn. Both have a lot of context depending stuff, are inconsistent (print not being a function in Python), hard to deal with stuff (Python's unicode support or result of 3/2), weird syntax (__init__) and other things (where to import what from), dealing with lists, etc. Like, Hello World is probably simpler, but building even script style program seems easier and you never get stuck, because of something you don't know yet. I can't really talk about Ruby. I learned Ruby after Perl and Smallkalk, so putting those two together was too hard. Perl was a weird thing. It's possibly the hardest language to learn, but the fastest to program in. Kinda the opposite of Go in that sense. Everything depends a lot of context, tons of tricks, special variables and varying behavior, with default behavior you might not know you want and stuff like that. Also it requires a lot of selfdiscipline, while Go (kinda like Java) forces you to write code the way it is meant to be programmed in. In Perl you always can see whether someone actually programs in Java/C/Shell/Python/... and doesn't know the language well. In Go code one program/library feels like the other.