Hunter-
Not as fast ? Again, no one acknowledges psyco.
If you want to rewrite the Wikipedia engine in Python, you are welcome to do so. Tim is doing a rewrite in Perl. Maybe Tomasz will do a rewrite in Ocaml. And hey, perhaps good old Jonathan Walther will come back here 3 years from now and tell us that his mod_wiki implementation in C is finished. The more implementations we can choose from eventually the better.
I am happy to see rewrite projects and might even participate in the ones I find interesting. I am also happy to see contributions to our existing codebase. Frankly, I have not seen much from you in either department yet.
Discussing the merits or disadvantages of various programming languages here is completely pointless and off-topic. If you want to do that, please take it off the list.
Regards,
Erik