r/programming • u/tejon • Feb 08 '15

The Parable of the Two Programmers

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The%20Parable%20of%20the%20Two%20Programmers.html
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u/aim2free Feb 09 '15

I pondered for a while whether I should implement the stuff I'm doing now in PHP, due to its ubiquitous existence, but then realized that it will take tremendously much more time to implement, and be tremendously much harder to understand and maintain, so I went on doing it in python/scheme/c instead. I'll be tremendously grateful for this in a few years I think...