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> I would certainly hope a minimal HTTP library would be simpler than a suite of functions to manipulate and plot tabular data.

HTTP is pretty complex, but that's neither here nor there. The relevant bit is that there is no domain for which guessing caller intent based on reflection over argument types is appropriate.

> “My application is slow, the language sucks!” Doesn’t indicate a very serious investigation into the problem.

I was pretty explicit above and elsewhere in this thread about why Python's performance is miserable; I'm not sure why you would invoke such a poorly constructed straw man when everyone can look upthread and see my actual arguments.




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