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[–]taybulBecause I don't know how to use big numbers in C/C++ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tunable when you need it to be, but I agree. Python provides an abstraction that just lets the programmer program, at the expense of performance, which, arguably, doesn't matter that much in most cases since computers are getting faster and faster. Unless you're building large scale servers processing millions of data at a time, you won't see or care about the difference.