[cess11]

Sorry, I'm not keen on measuring excellence by polling web search engines. Is this how you choose what web pages to visit? You grab a top five from somewhere and only use those, except when you drop by here?

I'm more interested in your claim about "usable for any application". How come all those fancy ML types and learned academics refuse to use Python for the core computations they perform when they try to invent witchcrafts, instead opting for C, C++ and Fortran libraries?

[mgaunard]

High-performance numerical kernels are hardly general-purpose programming.

[cess11]

There is no such thing.

Sometimes the algolians are called general-purpose programming languages, as opposed to SQL, functional programming languages, logic programming, and so on. Sometimes anything it's used as an opposite to domain-specific languages.