Python is great!

Recently, I learnt Python mainly in the course of doing some web programming, not wanting to jump into the jargon laden Java technology stack. Also, I wanted to learn a language for quickly coding out things, yet be able to manage and organize code as well as in Java. Quite a lot of people have taken to Python for these reasons, and it surely doesn't disappoint. Coding feels like a breeze, yet I can write well organized and structured code. The language is powerful and expressive and the list manipulation facilities are a breeze. There is a hint of functional programming too with 'map', 'reduce', 'filter' functions. It has a good collection of libraries too, and almost every functionality has Python APIs. So there is little reason to be stuck with Java because of non-availability of libraries. The only odd thing is that the language has no braces, and relies on indentation for defining scopes. Enjoying Python for now, hope to use it heavily in times to come !