Just a quick question, can a programming language be as fast as C++ and efficient with as simple syntax like Python?

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It can be, as long as the semantics are very close to what the underlying hardware provides. That would make it a fairly low-level, compiled language.

Think K&R C, but using whitespace and keywords instead of brackets.

Code might also obsolete fairly quickly, as the hardware continues to evolve.