This is a very important point. The hardware world itself suffers from this effect even more than software with synthesis and PNR for verilog/VHDL. I'm hoping

This is a very important point. The hardware world itself suffers from this effect even more than software with synthesis and PNR for verilog/VHDL. I'm hoping the compilation world progresses enough with efforts such as LLVM to break our chains to crufty languages.