> does it offer anything natively without interfacing with C/C++ that validates it to be called a general purpose language. In fairness, a huge amount of C/C++

> does it offer anything natively without interfacing with C/C++ that validates it to be called a general purpose language. In fairness, a huge amount of C/C++ functionality is managed by the kernel anyways. I'd bet most of the stuff C is used for in this situation could be replaced with Python code, but isn't for maintainability and performance purposes.