Why are slower programming languages considered worse than faster ones?

Posted by Emanuil on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Emanuil
Published on 2011-02-22T11:20:35Z Indexed on 2011/02/22 15:32 UTC
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Here's how I see it.

There's machine code and it's all that the computers needs in order to run something. The computers don't care about programming languages. It doesn't matter to them if the machine code comes from Perl, Python or PHP.

Programming languages exist to serve programmers.

Some programming languages run slower then others but that's not because there is something wrong with them. It's often because they do more things that otherwise programmers would do and by doing these things, they do better what they are supposed to do - serve programmers.

So why are slower programming languages considered worse than faster ones?

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