> When somebody says a language is 'slow' they mean on typical hardware, under some common operating system, using the implementations available

So when somebody says a language is "slow", it's as when somebody says a language is "weakly typed", he picks arbitrary and unspecified parameters fitting what he wants the result to be, and then declares he was right?

> Everybody knows this.

Yes, just as everybody knows what "weakly typed" is (it's just completely different from one person to the next).

> You're dissembling

That word. I'm not sure it means what you think it does.

> because your favorite language is slow.

Not even sure where that one comes from.