While this article is 10 years old, it contains a few very good points -- I've referenced it many times over the last 8 years. Specifically:
-- Scripting languages relative run time and memory consumption overhead will often be acceptable and they may offer significant advantages with respect to programmer productivity.
-- For all program aspects investigated, the performance variability due to different programmers is on average about as large or even larger than the variability due to different languages.
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While this article is 10 years old, it contains a few very good points -- I've referenced it many times over the last 8 years. Specifically:
-- Scripting languages relative run time and memory consumption overhead will often be acceptable and they may offer significant advantages with respect to programmer productivity.
-- For all program aspects investigated, the performance variability due to different programmers is on average about as large or even larger than the variability due to different languages.