Kudos to the writer for actually taking the time to do this. Yes it's only 20% of C (in this particular metric), but to be 20% shy of the performance of C and s

Kudos to the writer for actually taking the time to do this. Yes it's only 20% of C (in this particular metric), but to be 20% shy of the performance of C and several orders of magnitude ahead of expressiveness... is there really anything to talk about? ;) P.S. I like C quite a bit. Languages should aspire to be so succinct.