Fantastic exchange from DConf

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 18:58:35 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:16:57AM +0000, Atila Neves via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> [...]
>
> Very nice!  Reminds me of an incident many years ago where I 
> "optimized" a shell script that took >2 days to generate a 
> report by rewriting it Perl, which produced the report in 2 
> mins. (Don't ask why somebody thought it was a good idea to 
> write a report generation script as a *shell script*, of all 
> things. You really do not want to know.)
>
> [...]

> Hmm. What would giving them D be equivalent to, then? :-D

I'm not sure! If I knew you were going to ask that I'd probably 
have picked a different analogy ;)

Atila