Steve Dekorte on programming language shootouts
“Writing a Mandelbrot set calculator in a high level language is like trying to run the Indy 500 in a bus. While it might be amusing for a car magazine to test circuit times for various busses on a race course, it really tells potential bus buyers very little about which bus they should buy as the problem of cost efficiently maximizing transportation throughput on normal roads involves different tradeoffs than the problem of no-expense-spared maximization of transportation speed on an extremely windy road.”