Why C++ compiles slowly

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Yea. If Java's design philosophy were a valid one, there would never have 
> been any reason to move beyond Altair-style programming (ie, entering 
> machine code (not asm) in binary, one byte at a time, via physical toggle 
> switches). You *can* do anything you need like that (It's Turing-complete!).

Yeah, and I've seen OOP done in C, and it works. It's just awful. I've even seen 
OOP done in assembler (Optlink!).