Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[Courageous]

>C is: Easy to learn
>Python is: Hard to learn (well relativly to C)

If you didn't just say that backwards, you are a mutant. :)

>Generates piss pore performance code (I am sorry to say)

Python is almost always faster than the equivalent C, for
somewhat arcane definitions of the "equivalent C". For example,
if you set up every object in your C class hierarchy to contain
attributes which were in a hash table, and then always accessed
them that way, what you would come up with would almost certainly
be slower than Python. 

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