Still one of my favorite stackexchange question.

Link please

@py2js https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/...

I am going to try to justify the question.

since the machine is slow, compiling would be slow. so the developer would think that if he/she writes slow and less efficient code, compiling every time would consume a huge amount of time. it gets frustrating especially when there are typos or silly mistakes!

so, the developer would try to write faster/more efficient code, in order to save his/her time in compiling.

seems legit?

Oh look it’s closed

++ for the HHGTTG reference

@gsn16 my pc is slow (work at home and gpu is low end for vr) and i always will write the most efficient code possible, tomeit wouldnt matter if I had a more up to date cpu and gpu to help compile the game scenes when doing a build, but the break I get lets me get a coffee, hit the punching bag or just some form of break while I wait.

Might be different to some people though

@f03n1x nice 👍

Worked for me on a TI84+ calculator, but I also wrote pretty code-golfy programs. And I was just learning how to code and the programs were small.