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8 Post author: infotropism 18 March 2009 08:18PM

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 19 March 2009 02:50:52AM 2 points [-]

Very unlikely. First, any solution that involves rewriting substantial amounts of code is a priori highly unlikely to be a "quicker" solution than most other sane options.

Second, Python is somewhere in the neighborhood of the 6th or 7th most popular programming language in current use, and many languages of comparable or greater popularity are either painfully lacking in expressive power (C, Java) or detrimental to competent programming (PHP, Visual Basic, Java).

Overall, Python is reasonably close to an ideal language for these purposes, with respect to the metrics of expressivity, sanity, and popularity.