I think we've reached the point where it shouldn't take "several hours to perform simple operations" on any modern compiler/platform. Instead, it shouldn't take

I think we've reached the point where it shouldn't take "several hours to perform simple operations" on any modern compiler/platform. Instead, it shouldn't take several hours of a programmers time to develop simple operations. I'd agree with the conclusion of this post, "Hardware is cheap, programmers are expensive": http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001198.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001198.html