> What happened to the programmer’s time is more important than the machine’s? I've never thought this way, primarily because I sympathize with and love comput

> What happened to the programmer’s time is more important than the machine’s? I've never thought this way, primarily because I sympathize with and love computers, and don't like to watch them suffer. But there's more than that even, because there's more to software than just finding the most expressive language. Someone has to package, deploy, verify, monitor, scale, debug and optimize the software and do all of these things with as little money and as little CPU/RAM as possible. It's often a matter of worse being better when it comes to these types of concerns. Simplicity is exactly what is needed when performance starts to matter, and "clever" men often seem to be conspicuously absent when it comes time to take out the trash. Sure, it's fun to gather up your little clique of ivory tower CS nerds and get into a DSL measuring contest, but I've never seen the value in it myself, other than as defining one extreme end of the overton programming window.