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by emilper 1676 days ago
that is _not_ how you judge a _scripting_ language

it is trivial* to add C code to Perl, even when using XS, I guess it is as easy to do the same for Python

if you do heavy computations in pure Perl5 or pure Python you're doing it wrong by definition

*assuming you can write C