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Brad Abrams talks about the (supposed) conflict between developer productivity and performance:

Well, today I had a heated discussion with some of the smartest people on the CLR about the balance between developer productivity and performance. %A0The debate goes something like this:%A0

Me: Feature X will make developers more productive, so we should do it!
Other Guy: Feature X will make developers apps so slow it will not matter, they will use something else...

Anyone want to take bets on the liklihood that "Other Guy" actually tested anything out and profiled it? Maybe the feature in question would be too expensive - but the all too common approach to this issue is argument by assertion