This is because to make it easier for the novice, there are all kinds of constructs that try to make the code imitate normal English. But coding software is a completely different thing than writing text, thus the English-like front is in fact a smoke screen that hides the real gears.
A small example would be the unless keyword. It completely throws me of each time I come across it, because it reverses the order of evaluation:
Do something, unless condition applies.
I read that from left to right, so in my mind "Do something" has already executed, but then I have to go back, because the condition might not apply. This get really 'fun' if the condition is something negative.
I like Go just because it way more simple. Even it is a bit more verbose in the error handling, everywhere else it is very minimal and clear.
