Comment by Peritract
10 hours ago
That's still less thinking overall that someone who thought about all of that and thought about the scripting would have done.
10 hours ago
That's still less thinking overall that someone who thought about all of that and thought about the scripting would have done.
And even less than someone who wrote an interpreter for the script, less than someone who also chanted times tables while doing it.
More thinking isn’t a simple good thing. Given a limit to how much thought I can give any specific task, adding extra work may mean less where it’s most useful.
That's not a good-faith argument; obviously we're talking about relevant thought, rather than distraction (which, in context, would be less thought).
It is a good faith argument, my point is exactly that the actual scripting was not part of the relevant thought any more than the interpreter would have been.