Quoth Paul in Why I Promote Python at O’Reilly:

Personally, I cannot stand this design aesthetic, because it divides the world into “programmers” and “non-programmers”. My dream is a world wherein all but the very lowest levels and tightest loops of programs are written in a language that is so simple that it can be taught in primary school as a first language; where every word-processor user who can write a macro can at least try to dive into their word processor’s source code to fix a bug, because the macro language is also the implementation language.

The article as a whole is, perhaps, a little on the Python fanatic side. But it’s worth reading in full.

Update: Some related thoughts at Piece of Mind.

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