It happens to be better suited for manipulating strings than numbers, for example, but it's really a general-purpose language.

例如它恰好,处理字符串,比处理数字更有效率，但是它确实是一种面向面很广的语言。

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Both of us have probably programmed in more than those number of languages, at least programmed that many, since we taught in those languages.

我们俩大概都用过,多于那个数字的语言编过程，自从我们开始教这些语言开始，至少有那么多种吧。

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