No, that's a weird conclusion if I ever saw one. What can be claimed though is that any general purpose programming language "can be made to" handle scientific

No, that's a weird conclusion if I ever saw one. What can be claimed though is that any general purpose programming language "can be made to" handle scientific programming. I'm not saying you should, but it's possible for sure. Libraries like big.js for example make arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic possible on JS, which many considered impossible to do in JS.