that is _not_ how you judge a _scripting_ language it is trivial* to add C code to Perl, even when using XS, I guess it is as easy to do the same for Python i

that is _not_ how you judge a _scripting_ language it is trivial* to add C code to Perl, even when using XS, I guess it is as easy to do the same for Python if you do heavy computations in pure Perl5 or pure Python you're doing it wrong by definition *assuming you can write C