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If a script that is run twice a day to make back ups of some logs takes a couple minutes longer than it could have if it was written in C, then most likely, nothing bad will happen
A) In your example, performance still matters, because you do need the script to run faster than 12 hours in order for it to run twice per day.
B) It would be beneficial for that script to run faster because you'd reduce CPU load on that system.
C) It's pretty pathetic to imply that some programming paradigm is valid because, hey, sure it's horrible, but there are some rare cases where it's OK to be horrible and you
probably won't notice the difference in these rare cases.