Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was in "The Hundred-Year Language" [^1] where @pg argued for performance as a language design feature. He could h

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was in "The Hundred-Year Language" [^1] where @pg argued for performance as a language design feature. He could have meant a different kind of performance though. - [^1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html