Actually, a pretty big feature of high-level languages is being reminded over and over that you never need to re-write the vast majority of most programs. For m

Actually, a pretty big feature of high-level languages is being reminded over and over that you never need to re-write the vast majority of most programs. For many tasks, two lines of awk or half a page of Python is quite sufficient. (And when something is a legitimate hotspot and benefits from being rewritten in C, it's not selling out. Where the heck did that idea come from?)