You suggesting that I am a "troll" does not exculpate you from answering the question. Your argument is that programmers should use less-convenient and more pa

You suggesting that I am a "troll" does not exculpate you from answering the question. Your argument is that programmers should use less-convenient and more painful languages to save energy. The argument that agriculture should be performed by unpaid peasants or slaves is exactly the same. Edit: it doesn't actually matter if they are paid or not (although they generally weren't). The history of human progress is pretty much defined by using energy to replace human scutwork.