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So a Python programmer today can only make things 25 times faster than someone writing binary code in 1950? Really?

• emeraldd 10y ago
  That's only true for a small subset of applications. Beyond the code that the programmer is actually writing themselves and direct language features, Python (and most modern languages with good library support) makes a standard library (and many third party libraries). The library of external code that developers don't have to think about wasn't really covered in the article but is one of the things which multiply that 25 significantly higher.