It does, but the point is that with Python there's generally one "obvious" way of accomplishing something. With Scala, I found when tackling certain problems (and my memory is fuzzy here; like I said, it's been several months :)), no particular solution stuck out as obvious. I'd consider myself fairly expert in Python now, so it may well be that what I see as obviousness may well be (reasonably) deep domain knowledge... but I didn't find the curve with Python anywhere near as steep as Scala's.