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I don't find python easier or harder to, compared to..ruby, javascript, ( or even OCaml) for example.

Most people who are tech adjacent, learn declarative langs like SQL, HTML first. Python doesn't look like that at all.

It's like when people say "Go is so easy to read!" I learned to program in SML then OCaml, __insert other FP langs__ then Ruby and ES6, Go looked pretty alien to me the first time I saw it.

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That's cool and all, but then you're not "most people". Personally I found Go super easy to read the first time I saw it, but my journey through the programming languages was also a different one.

I think the point I'm making is that there's nothing "universal" about a language that makes it easier to learn then other languages. It's what ever your previous experience is.

In my point, I rebuttal that non programmers would find python "easy to read", kinda not true.

I then use my exposure to Go as antidotal evidence, of the above observation.

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