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> I think the unappreciated advantage of python is that I have to abandon all pretense of caring about speed and just get stuff working. It basically solves the pre-mature optimization problem for me

I feel the same way. With Python I just write the simplest algorithm that first comes to my mind, even though I know that it is not the most optimized way of doing things. But most of the time I am surprised that it works so fast that I realize I actually don't need to optimize it.

And being able to create and easily manipulate dictionaries and tuples also allows me to create efficient data structures very quickly.