We were both wondering, you have this general purpose computer next to your ear why were you not able to make that sale?

我们都在想，你手边就有一台电脑,为什么你不能完成这次买卖？

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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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