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Re:Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care by scarface74 on Friday September 08, 2017 @09:59PM (#15205186)
It's really nice to be able to throw a string at a function and have that function compare it to a literal value using == instead of strcmp - and oh yeah, someone was just about to reply saying I should always use strncmp for extra productivity loss.

Who uses straight C? C++ and C# have operator overloading. You can overload any of the operators for a class and get sane semantics for addition, subtraction, equality, etc.

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Re:Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care by notacoward on Saturday September 09, 2017 @07:49PM (#15209716)
A lot of the largest and most critical codebases, probably including most of the software you cause to execute every day, is still in C. Also, operator overloading doesn't solve the general problem and creates a few of its own, but thanks for the condescension anyway.
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