Perfectly applicable to software development. You can bang out a simple unoptimized program in tens or hundreds of lines of some scripting language (that compil

Perfectly applicable to software development. You can bang out a simple unoptimized program in tens or hundreds of lines of some scripting language (that compiles to megabytes of executable) in minutes. Doing the same thing in a highly optimized way with a minimal set of assembly instructions could take weeks or months.