> It is kind of impressive that you can write code that is as fast as C without writing C, even if it is ugly. Impressive, perhaps -- but from a maintainabilit

> It is kind of impressive that you can write code that is as fast as C without writing C, even if it is ugly. Impressive, perhaps -- but from a maintainability perspective I think I might prefer to pay the cost of jumping the language barrier to be able to write natural, comprehensible C rather than staying within one language and dealing with an unreadable jumble, even if it performs as well.