On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 22:58:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/31/2013 2:40 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:
Are you serious that you can't fathom how it could be
confusing to someone than
talking about differences in run times?
Yes.
And no, I'm not talking about confusing to someone who lives in
an undiscovered stone age tribe in the Amazon. I'm talking
about computer programmers.
Considering how many programmer think javascript is near C speed,
I do believe that most of them effectively do not understand the
notion of speed.