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As for speed (performance)... well, I'm very critic of this word. I think we overrate its importance. It is natural that, while discussing this topic lines like "this programming language is slow" or "performance is important" are commonplace. But let us be honest about it. Is it really that important?
I tire quickly of this attitude that with the current crop of hardware software speed does not matter. It is attitudes like this that create the bloatware that permeates the industry. We have more power and more horsepower than ever before and yet we continually try to move backwards to improve things that do not need improving all for the sake of making it easier. I'm convinced that with this type of attitude we will always have slower and slower software regardless of the hardware because we find new and interesting ways to make it slower.