Is the slow performance of programming languages a bad thing?
- by Emanuil
Here's how I see it.
There's machine code and it's all that the computers needs in order to run something. The computers don't care about programming languages. It doesn't matter to them if the machine code comes from Perl, Python or PHP. Programming languages exist to serve programmers.
Some programming languages run slower than others but that's not necessarily because there is something wrong with them. In many cases it's just because they do more things that otherwise programmers would have to do and by doing these things, they do better what they are supposed to do - serve programmers.
So is the slower performance (at runtime) of a programming language really a bad thing?