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Re:Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care by bluntfang on Friday September 08, 2017 @11:14AM (#15200812)
>In Python I need to rescan all of the types into my head until I can understand what the program does.

Couldn't that be solved with sane variable naming conventions and docstrings/documentation?

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Re:Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care by scarface74 on Friday September 08, 2017 @02:12PM (#15202620)
Maybe. But it can be more easily solved on a strongly typed language where you can right click on a method and do "find usages" and it can. E done algorithmically.
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