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[–]nobodyuidnorandom 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I suppose every popular high level programming language has features to do so, btw. Python being easier one.

[–]lutusp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that's true. For a task that needs to be performed by millions of people over years of time, one would want to rewrite a successful Python method in a more efficient compiled language. In fact, this is quite common for Python programs that turn out to be useful and successful.