> it only wastes the programmer’s time. ... Wasting CPU time on the other hand bothers me a lot!
As always the answer is... it depends. Programmer time costs money, CPU time is cheap by comparison.
If you're building something that runs occasionally, or is IO/UI/network bound... CPU time is largely irrelevant. But if you're building something that runs in a tight loop or a library that will be compiled in millions of lines of code, then the wasted programmer time will absolutely be worth the ROI.
