> I have no real way to tie this back to programming ... One facet of the tie-in is the age-old question of what to optimize for: Programmer time? Execution sp

> I have no real way to tie this back to programming ... One facet of the tie-in is the age-old question of what to optimize for: Programmer time? Execution speed? Code compactness? Code maintainability? Cf. The Story of Mel [0]. [0] http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html