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Paul Snively and John Wiseman critique Python. Python, I think, wins on most fronts except generality and minimalism. Its lambda is, IMHO, rather arbitrarily broken, and as a consequence the language has too many other primitives. Also, I don't find its performance (even for an interpreter) satisfactory... So you may ask, what's a good alternative? Two that I can think of offhand are Lua and Ruby.