scripting

What makes a "scripting" language one is that it has the ability to DO scripting and that it's used in that manner. Basic, when you get right down to brass tacks is a scripting language. Forth is. C is. C++ is.

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We've optimized our minds enough that we can funroll and -momg-optimize our code by hand while still posting on /prog/.

All of that "lol developer time > *" bullshit is bullshit. If you're GOOD you can pull off C in less time than it takes to pull of anything else in any other language ever.