> "performance usually doesn't matter, and if it matters, is not because of the > language, but because of the code written" > > I dont know why you write this statement -- it is obviously wrong, and I am > sure you know that it is wrong.
It's not entirely wrong. For _many_ applications, performance doesn't matter. For those applications that do, algorithms typically matter a **lot** more than the choice of programming language. For example, on a sufficiently large list (which probably isn't very large) a custom-written [Bubble Sort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort#Analysis) in the C language (or Nim, or even assembly) will always lose to Python's built-in `sort`, because [TimSort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort#Analysis) scales far, far better. Things like this are not that uncommon. This is one reason higher-level languages can outperform hand-coded assembly in some cases: it's easier, and more efficient, to write good, correct algorithms in higher-level languages.
