It really can't be stated strongly enough, the damage this advice has done. When I first started seeing it, I rolled my eyes thinking, "This is obviously a mistake, even new students won't ignore reality>". 20 years later, jokes on me, all the software is slow and bad.
@mr_satan @FizzyOrange
That is a far cry from where we started.
"Code is primarily to communicate from human-to-human, and only incidentally for computers to execute"