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To be clear, in general, I agree. However...

"Finally, slowness, until you get really low-down is relatively easy problem with many solutions."

There is a barrier that you can hit in Python/Perl/Ruby/Javascript where you're trying to do something, you've optimized the Python/etc. to within an inch of its life, and it's still just too slow. I've hit it twice now in pretty serious ways. Once you've removed all the slowness-that-has-easy-solutions, you're still using a very slow language... the 50-100x number I cite is with the slowness already removed for optimal code, though, to be fair, this is in comparison to fairly optimal C/C++ as well. Well-written Python can be competitive with poorly-written C, and that is also not even slightly a joke, since it's generally easier to get to the well-written Python. But you can still run out of juice on a modern machine.

But ultimately this is just something you want to know and understand, and not be too bedazzled by claims that everything's hunky dory in every way.




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