Re:It is fast or it is wrong
by sdenton4 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @12:34PM
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Yeah, you're basically treating user experience as an externality, though. The point is that the end user of the program doesn't care how expressive the language is, they care how long it takes to run. And the overhead piles up as the dependency stack gets deeper...
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But the end user certainly doesn't care how long the program took to compile,which is something the author lumped together with runtime.
But end users do care about programs not crashing and losing whatever they were working on, they care about features, and they care about how long it takes for them to get the features they want, all of which are impacted in some way by the language and tools used by the programmer.