> simply call a few heavy-duty library functions to do all the real work Which is the main advantage of python. Since there are heavily optimised libraries for

> simply call a few heavy-duty library functions to do all the real work Which is the main advantage of python. Since there are heavily optimised libraries for everything from optimisation to numerical analysis to ML, 99% of people don't need to attempt to be a Real Programmer and write the hand-optimised Fortran/C/assembly code themselves.