Great article. The way I look at it is something like the swordsman scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The swordsman's doing fancy optimizations and C just blows

Great article. The way I look at it is something like the swordsman scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The swordsman's doing fancy optimizations and C just blows away the need. If you can find a language that's x100 the performance of an interpreted language, that speed delta will cover up lots of naivety in the code you write.