> I started to use Python not much after this article(2002?), and I wonder how much of those days' simplicity holds true.
I started learning Python in 2003, I was really a programming newby, by I managed to get my first full-time programming job just 2 years later because Python made it that easy for a neophyte to get from 0 experience to getting paid to write code. List comprehensions are cool, and not that hard to grasp, but I agree, I sort of started losing track once people started using "generator that" or "decorator this" for every damn problem you threw at them.
I started learning Python in 2003, I was really a programming newby, by I managed to get my first full-time programming job just 2 years later because Python made it that easy for a neophyte to get from 0 experience to getting paid to write code. List comprehensions are cool, and not that hard to grasp, but I agree, I sort of started losing track once people started using "generator that" or "decorator this" for every damn problem you threw at them.