Optimizations and performance

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 15:16:34 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> The point is this sort of language benchmark should use normal 
> code.  The sort of code that people who've never heard of 
> Haskell would write.
>
> If it's a "fast" language, "ordinary-looking" code should be 
> fast.  If being fast requires weird circumlocutions that barely 
> anyone knows, it doesn't matter if experts consider it best 
> practice.

A language optimized for performance of spontaneous code written 
by newbies, who never learned the language and don't use best 
practices?