Indeed. I've found that I can code applications with 10-20% of the amount of code required by other languages and write the code in a correspondingly shorter period of time. The result is far less brittle, more functional and far more maintainable. This is code you can come back to a year later and pick right up with ease. That's not something I can say for most traditional compiled languages. All of this, of course, translates directly to much lower lifecycle cost and safer, more reliable code.
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