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> "It's better, but you would need to download a whole new language instead of using the one in the OS already. So we'll use the worse option that comes with the OS."

Yeah, I can see picking Python over Perl 5; just *barely*, though.

> Ruby also didn't and still doesn't have a good reputation when it comes to speed, but not like Python is any better with its arrays.

Well, reputation rather than actual performance.

On the other hand, 99% of the times you use any scripting language and 90% of the time you use an application- or systems-programming language, if it's CPU-bound instead of I/O-bound, you've fucked up.

> Python sidestepped the issue by bolting more C libraries to it.

Yeah, and "This looks better when I'm typesetting my paper" cascades into an ecosystem.