It gives you a lot of expressive convenience, you can write the programs much more cleanly, but most importantly, it's fast.

你可以把一些程序写的更清楚，最重要的是，它的效率非常高。

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So there're a lot of geeks in this world that like to compete against each other by writing the most complicated looking compact programs possible.

这个世界上还是有很多怪人,和别人比赛看谁写出来的程序,更复杂。

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All the supreme court justices would share our social values. And most importantly, our programs would work the first time we typed them. By now you may have noticed that we do not live in an ideal world.

符合我们的社会价值观,但是最重要的是，我们写好的程序，第一次就能顺利运行,如今你可能已经注意到了,我们生活的并不是一个理想的世界。

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