My third language was C, after Pascal and Modula 2. And I've built a good bit of production C long ago. (And beside the point, it was not difficult...? Memor

My third language was C, after Pascal and Modula 2. And I've built a good bit of production C long ago. (And beside the point, it was not difficult...? Memory management and pointer math is not rocket science. But I digress.) It seems like the people promoting Python for its ability to interact with C (to outsource time/memory constrained functions) are no familiar with the other uses of Python -- namely to build large systems in object oriented fashions. A 10 or 100 or even 1000 line "script" in Python is just fine. Read it like a story, let it do the one job it needs to do, and go home. But scale up to 10000 or 100000 lines, and you will certainly be forced to go OOP. After all, most Python modules use OO classes in cases where a module of functions would suffice... Now you are in the realm where Python is comparatively very poorly suited for the job. It's a frog-in-the-pot boiling situation. It started out innocently enough with the frog choosing the nicest small body of water nearby, but now the frog is in pain and dying and unable to understand how they got into that situation.