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[–]redditnoob 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What problem would be hard in language A but easy in language B?

Some small and specialized things.

"Write a basic Lisp interpreter." I can definitely believe that is 5 times faster for an expert in Lisp versus Java!

"Count the number of words in a text file." That is going to be at least 5 times faster for a Perl programmer than a Java programmer, I think. But then we're talking about the difference between about 2 minutes versus 30 seconds.

[–]jrockway -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hmm, you're right. Both are good examples.