But when I see benchmarks that suggest Python is 10 to 100X slower for critical server code, I have to wonder why anyone would use it for enterprise development

But when I see benchmarks that suggest Python is 10 to 100X slower for critical server code, I have to wonder why anyone would use it for enterprise development. Because not all enterprise development relates to critical server code? Neither language is pretty or fun or interesting from a CS point of view. I find working with c++ brings huge amounts of fun, and I do that almost daily :P But maybe I don't have a CS view (not sure what that is supposed to be?)