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Third option: Most problems faced by the working programmer simply don't benefit from a more powerful language, and the additional cost of switching isn't born
by angersock 12y ago
Third option:
Most problems faced by the working programmer simply don't benefit from a more powerful language, and the additional cost of switching isn't borne out.
I suspect that's the case--single-threaded node apps or Rails apps are more than sufficient for a lot of client work (hell, even WordPress can get you quite a ways).
- pron 12y agoBut are they really sufficient or is it lack of imagination? I mean, why wasn't the XT sufficient? Or the 386? Is it a universal constant that a single, ~3GHz stream of x86 instructions (forget about ILP and friends for the moment) is sufficient for human needs (but, say, 1GHz isn't)?