Funny. In my freshman year (7 years ago) I was an efficiency and premature optimization zealot, despising anything that wasn't written in C/C++. Then I met a

Funny. In my freshman year (7 years ago) I was an efficiency and premature optimization zealot, despising anything that wasn't written in C/C++. Then I met a hacker that told me how awesome dynamic language were (in particular Python and Lisp). I told him "but they are some 10-20 times slower than C!". And he replied "Yes, but it takes 10 times less time to code. If the outcome is not fast enough, you can spend the rest of the time optimizing". Since then, Python has been my language of choice, relegating C++ to the optimization of the (few) bottlenecks. Why is this funny? Because that hacker was antirez :)