Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

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On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 15:01:39 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> When every you are trying to optimize for speed you need to 
> always be aware of your bottle necks, for streaming video its 
> internet speed, for a CUDA application its main memory, for 
> coding its they keyboard.

I don't buy it. In a daily programming actually writing code 
takes no more than 10% of time for me. 30% planning what needs to 
be done, 30% figuring out what some piece of code does, 30% 
debugging. Even full elimination of typing phase (literally, 
imagine some magic tool that directly translate your thoughts to 
code) wont be as useful as something that halves time for _any_ 
of three other parts. And static strong typing helps them all. As 
well as any compile-verifiable correctness.

People that have bottlenecks in actually writing code must be 
genius and never make mistakes.