[yongjik]

Sure assembly is overkill for most tasks, but Python's performance is so poor that you can sometimes write a brute-force double loop on C++ and have it outperform anything in native Python.

Sometimes raw performance does save developer time, because you don't have to worry that much about algorithm. :)

[edw]

Preaching to the choir. It amazes me that the ML and Data Science folks have settled on anti-FORTRAN. (Or maybe, put that way, it’s less amazing.)