Paul Graham once made a point about designing languages for yourself, or for people who are not as smart as you are, or for people who are smarter than you are.

Paul Graham once made a point about designing languages for yourself, or for people who are not as smart as you are, or for people who are smarter than you are. https://youtu.be/agw-wlHGi0E?t=485 https://youtu.be/agw-wlHGi0E?t=485 Somehow this blog and the debate with djb reminds me of this point. What kind of person is are the compiler optimizations intended to benefit?