I assume you meant 'large' because, as software like Wordpress beautifully demonstrates, you can have the simplest program (from a user's perspective) in the fastest language but by using a billion function calls for the default page in a default installation, you can make anything slow. Using a slow language for large software, if that's what you meant to avoid then I agree.
And as another note, point number 2 basically excludes all meaningful software. Not that I necessarily disagree, but it's a bit on the heavy-handed side.