alt Hacker NewsPython has the advantage that everybody sort of knows it is bad and slow, which is an important trait for a glue language. This increases the incentive to do the right thing: call a library written in C or Fortran or something.
Python has the advantage that everybody sort of knows it is bad and slow, which is an important trait for a glue language. This increases the incentive to do the right thing: call a library written in C or Fortran or something.
It might be slow, but it is definitely not bad. In the contrary, it is a great language. The closest to pseudocode you can get in a mainstream.