[emiliovesprini]

Reminds me of ''Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute'' from Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs.

What always gets me about that quote is that's it's obviously false. There are exceptions (such as space shuttle controls), but most software that's ''important'' is important because of how much it's run --Firefox is run a whole lot more than it is read-- and so this Incidental Execution stuff is nonsense.

Performance and Readability are both important goals. Most of the time they're not even opposed as to justify pitching them against one another like this.