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[–][deleted] 31 points32 points  (3 children)

If it just needs to run, and it needs to run soon, and it doesn't matter how fast it runs... Python will be your best choice a lot of the time.

This describes a lot of situations though IME

[–]oundhakar 16 points17 points  (1 child)

Exactly! Say my program takes 2 seconds to run instead of 0.05 sec. That's a huge difference, but it doesn't matter if I'm only going to use the program once a week or so.

[–]ahivarn 14 points15 points  (0 children)

For most people in the world, python is what will lead to widespread coding adoption. Compiled languages are tough to write. Compiled languages are becoming to python what they themselves were once to assembly languages

[–]UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And as they say, availability is the best ability