A bite of Python
I would never accuse Python of "language clarity and friendliness". Far from it. For someone who came up through C, Java, Perl, and Ruby, but who's wrangled with Python, Javascript, Go, and even Haskell in recent years, I still find Python mysterious, self-contradictory, and filled with implicit rules and assumptions that are entirely un-intuitive to me far more than other languages. And yet, people seem to like it. Certainly this article does. It's an interesting effect.