Is Python the Esperanto of programming languages?

[Padraig at Linux.ie]

Andy Jewell wrote:
> Hi Pythonistas,
> 
> Just thought I'd throw the cat amongst the pigeons...  I just occurred to me 
> that Python is designed to be elegant from the ground-up, and takes many of 
> the 'best' features of many other programming languages, but always with 
> elegance in mind, similarly to Esperanto, which is designed to be a 'regular' 
> (i.e. elegant) human language, and draws its vocabulary from many different 
> spoken languages.
> 
> Anyone care to classify other languages in this way?  C, Pascal, Perl, 
> BASIC... ?

I would say python is more like lojban

Pádraig.