Re: More Funny Stuff From Joel

On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 02:40:08 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

... C is good for dealing with the raw data and it can be really
satisfying to get everything working, and python is great for throwing
something together.

Throwing something together to deal with raw data also works well in
Python. Where C excels is in large amounts of low-level computation. This
is the one area where Python on its own gets slow.

But then, you will likely find that, among the large number of toolkits
written in C for Python, there is bound to be something (e.g. NumPy) that
can be adapted to the particular low-level operations that you need to do.