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Part of knowing a tool is knowing when it's inappropriate. A rewrite in ANY language to "fix" a problem that you don't understand is generally a mistake. Doing things the needlessly complex way doesn't make you a better or manlier programmer.

By the way, a lot of these perl and python scripts spend most of their time calling into C libraries anyway, so the performance difference is often negligible.

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And unless my knowledge of the Python standard library is way off, the Python standard library is written in Python, not C. That's what all those .py files are in the /lib folder. So python scripts spend most of their time calling into Python libraries. It's true that the interpreter is written in c (c++?,) maybe that's what you were thinking of.

Why would you bring manliness into the discussion? Are you suggesting that Perl and Python are somehow manlier? Because I have no idea what that means.

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