Compilers vs. Wives: Why Too Many Is Never a Good Thing

You might think that having a debugger in your back will make you much slower compared to languages that pretty much do nothing to ensure the program is correct. But, my friend, you are as wrong as launching a new starship to land on Mars when the destination was actually your wife's friend, who loves to hang around and give your wife a good time.

Everything aside, I will explain why this is the case. There's just one answer: too many compilers! The only real contender to this situation is the Chinese civil servant who was caught having 110 wives, all living next to each other in their own houses. Imagine a fixed interval of 110 days after which you meet the love of your life – it's the best! But unlike this, having too many compilers is not fun. It leads to rebuilding the same things over and over again. And most people don't even realize that GCC is primarily meant to be run on Linux. For Windows, you have to download the "Visual Studio fat mom" to get all 5GB of "non-spyware" onto your computer so you can finally compile your "Hello World" program.