[dahfizz]

Alternatively, people cared about performance then. Nowadays programmers would rather do the slow, easy thing so they don't have to think as hard.

[lmm]

The idea that it's somehow morally lacking to put less value on performance on machines are literally thousands of time faster than those used for early programming has always struck me as rather odd.

[Gibbon1]

When I think of the problem what I see is the compiler pretends to be fast by forcing the programmer to deal with the problems. Bonus the solutions are inherently fragile and bug ridden. Which the programmer gets smugly blamed for.