Using Python for programming algorithms

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> Vicent Giner wrote:

> The usual answer is that development time is more important than running time.

This depends. Run time is not important until you are asked to scale to 
millions or billions of users or computations or large data sets. I've 
seen this first hand. Getting results back the same day or sooner may be 
important. In cases such as this, I use C or C++... nothing else will 
do. Nothing else is as fast. Although I always keep a py version around 
for testing and for smaller tasks. Don't get me wrong, I love Python, 
but there are times when nothing, but pure, hard speed will do.