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How much more efficient did compilers make developers?


Yeah that’s exactly the same if you completely ignore context and market dynamics. It’s like trying to use the patterns of the colonial American horse market as a vehicle to analyze the modern American auto industry.


a ton. that's why fortran was invented




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