Comment Googlers (Score 1) 123
Those are Googlers.
As most things in life do, code usually follows the Pareto distribution: 80% of the time is spend in 20% of the code. If Python is fast enough for, let's say 90% of your code, and you are much more productive in Python than C, then writing most all the code in Python first, and replacing the bits and pieces that are too slow for you with C functions, is much more efficient use of your time than writing everything in C.
Also consider that sometimes you have to go in fishing expeditions for the correct algorithm to do what you are doing. Doing so in Python, with the speedup in iterative design that that carries, and even if that once you find the most efficient algorithm for your problem you implement it in C, you will have had spend the same time as before, but knowing all the ways you can't do it, and have arrived to an at least nearly optimal solution.
Most of the time you don't need that much speed. When you do, you have to have the right algorithm and the right language. I also put forth that Python has a lot of modules that are already written in C, so you take advantage of existing optimized code that you don't have to write.
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Blindly saying never use a goto doesn't always give you the best solution.
Blindly saying never do X hardly ever gives you the best solution.
Many people are unenthusiastic about their work.
