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Comment by WalterBright

It's difficult to write a fair comparison without being a fairly competent programmer in each of the languages. The trouble is, if a person is an expert C programmer and then translates it to Python that he's only modestly familiar with, the Python program will look like C. It won't be idiomatic Python.

For example, my early Fortran programs looked like Basic. My early C programs looked like Fortran. My early C++ programs looked like C. And my early D code looked like C++.

It takes much more than being able to write a program in X to be able to write one that makes proper use of the language.

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