an interpreted language is often easier to debug, because you can still see your raw code there, but it's not always as fast.

解释语言调试起来很容易，因为你可以看到最原始的代码，但是这种语言不够快。

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Another way of saying it is, anything that uses get float doesn't care what the details are inside or shouldn't, and if I change that definition, I don't have to change anything elsewhere in my code, whereas if I just have the raw code in there, I have to go off and do it.

换种说法就是，任何用到获取,输入这个功能的人不用担心具体的实现细节,如果我改变了这里的实现，我并不需要去改变我的代码,因为我的最底处的源码就在这里,我去改这里就可以了。

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