To be fair, the article doesn't say "Python is fast." It says "Python is slow," and then goes on to say something like "But if most of your heavy-duty calculati

To be fair, the article doesn't say "Python is fast." It says "Python is slow," and then goes on to say something like "But if most of your heavy-duty calculation involves calling prewritten C routines, you can do your development work in Python without getting killed on performance." Language discussions always seem to go down the same dismal tube in the end: "Is C > Python, or is Python > C?"