Popular conceit about learning programming languages

[Matt Gerrans]

I disagree.    I've learned a number of languages and Python was by far the
fastest.   This was probably due to the fact that it is not just easy to
learn, but also fun.   Also, the aid of the interactive prompt facilitates
quick learning immensly.  An intelligent and motivated person should be able
to zip through "Learning Python" in two or three weeks to get a start and be
quite proficient in just a few months practice.

Of course, after a few years when you go back and look at the early stuff
you wrote when you first learned it, you will find cleaner and more
idiomatic ways of doing some things, but this phenomenon is by no means
unique to Python.