OT: why do people use python when it is slow?

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 23:26:14 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Python-so-popular-despite-being-so-slow
> Andrei suggested posting more widely.

I was just writing some R code yesterday after playing around 
with D for a couple weeks. I accomplished more in an afternoon of 
R coding than I think I had in like a month's worth of playing 
around with D. The same is true for python.