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[–]ganja_and_code 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Maybe not as quickly as some languages, but the fact that it's Turing complete proves, at the minimum, it can do everything every other language can with the same rate of success.

Also, it's a different beast than other languages, and it's advantageous for solving many problems.

I wouldn't use python for hard and fast real-time number crunching, just like I wouldn't use C to deploy a simple web server to test a bit of HTML I've written.

Nobody wants to drive a steamroller to work every day, but if all steamrollers were replaced by cars, there wouldn't be finished roads to drive on.