alt Hacker NewsAnd even less than someone who wrote an interpreter for the script, less than someone who also chanted times tables while doing it.
More thinking isn’t a simple good thing. Given a limit to how much thought I can give any specific task, adding extra work may mean less where it’s most useful.
That's not a good-faith argument; obviously we're talking about relevant thought, rather than distraction (which, in context, would be less thought).