That's an apples to oranges comparison. Python is interpreted, and can guess what the programmer wants much better than a compiler that has to output actual mac

That's an apples to oranges comparison. Python is interpreted, and can guess what the programmer wants much better than a compiler that has to output actual machine code. > I think C is not very deep Depends on what you're using it for, I suppose. For low level stuff I enjoy the fact that I can largely tell the shape of assembler from C code. What does Python really execute when I do `f = open('file', 'rb')`?