> no amount of fast feedback will help you complete all of the Euler problems
I find this one almost a perfect counterexample. The Euler problems are almost ideally suited to high levels of interactivity, in order to tease out patterns and solutions.
By no means am I a massive Euler user, but when I was solving #555 I was sure glad to be using Python. If I had a >1m recompile time I probably would have just given up.
I haven't solved 555 problems, just problem #555 [1]. Sorry if I was unclear.
I also wasn't saying that any language would get long compile times on Euler questions -- they're far too short for that -- but that theoretically if they did it would cause problems.
I find this one almost a perfect counterexample. The Euler problems are almost ideally suited to high levels of interactivity, in order to tease out patterns and solutions.
By no means am I a massive Euler user, but when I was solving #555 I was sure glad to be using Python. If I had a >1m recompile time I probably would have just given up.