Is python worth learning as a second language?

[Aahz]

In article <49b5196b$0$3514$426a74cc at news.free.fr>,
Bruno Desthuilliers  <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
>Grant Edwards a écrit :
>>
>> Knowing C++ does tend to be a bit of a handicap, but I think
>> any competent programmer could learn Python.
>
>+2 QOTW !-)

Ditto!  Although I suppose you could just go for the jugular and say
that C++ is the BASIC of the 1990s.
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about it is at best rationalization of gut feelings, and at worst plain
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