Every language has it's pitfalls. There isn't one single greatest language for everything. Within an application domain one needs to consider the tradeoff betwe

Every language has it's pitfalls. There isn't one single greatest language for everything. Within an application domain one needs to consider the tradeoff between machine-time and human development-time and determine what the best tool for the job is. A 5minute run-time in Python might be acceptable if it takes you 1 hour to write it and are only going to use it once; whereas you may not even know how to program in OCaml even though it offers the best run-time.