Any claim that any language that has basic control structures and access to OS facilities can't be made to scale is absurd on its face. When you say that a sys

Any claim that any language that has basic control structures and access to OS facilities can't be made to scale is absurd on its face. When you say that a system scales well, you're talking about its asymptotic behavior. Using an inefficient language implementation will penalize you by at worst a constant multiple.