author here. Thanks for your comment.<p>&gt; Of course, not true, Babbage had to care<p>reference? In any case, the main point is that he was making tradeoffs for his math machine, not for modern software development. Not blaming him, just pointing out it was suboptimal for us.<p>&gt; The whole article is, unfortunately, like this<p>I&#x27;d love more examples. I have definitely a lot to learn about writing.<p>&gt;  The author just doesn&#x27;t understand how much of everything was invested up to now for him to pay so little for the CPU&#x27;s he uses<p>I don&#x27;t see how &quot;a lot of money was invested&quot; proves how there is no alternate hardware that would make programming more productive.