Your question is hard to answer, since in real life, "all else IS NOT being equal". In my life as a programmer, about 90% of my work was compiled, so I certainl

Your question is hard to answer, since in real life, "all else IS NOT being equal". In my life as a programmer, about 90% of my work was compiled, so I certainly have a bias. My personal perception was, that when working with compiled languages (mostly C++), I felt like building something. With interpreted languages (mostly Perl), I felt more like hacking something.