For a lot of workloads, performance is less important than maintainability. Python's cultural and technical adherence to an ideal code structure makes it a goo

For a lot of workloads, performance is less important than maintainability. Python's cultural and technical adherence to an ideal code structure makes it a good candidate for long-haul code where CPU-bound performance isn't going to be a factor. IMO the opposite end of that particular scale is Perl.