> I think that when you are doing exploratory programming and you're not quite sure about what you're doing you should have a language that gets out of the way

> I think that when you are doing exploratory programming and you're not quite sure about what you're doing you should have a language that gets out of the way as much as possible, which Python does. I agree with this, but am not sure it's on point. Every software engineering class I've heard of is about as far as you can get from exploratory programming.