&gt; I dearly love Python because it allows me to work at levels of abstraction that are meaningful to the user&#x27;s problem. I dearly love C when I want to wiggle a pin on an ARM Cortex-M3<p>What keeps you from wriggling that pin in Python?<p>Turing completeness dictates that any Turing complete language is equivalent to any other Turing complete language. In addition, you can do high levels of abstraction in C. The preprocessor and void pointers allow you to do some rather nice things. Structured programming also let you build things up. The advantage that Python enjoys is that it comes with a large number of library functions already provided and there are easily discoverable third party libraries. There are other differences, although every difference has a trade off. Garbage collection bloats memory requirements. Being interpreted means errors that can be caught in advance at compile time occur at runtime.