It always seems to be that each new generation of programmers goes straight for
the low-hanging fruit, ignoring that most of it has already been solved many
times over. Meanwhile the real problems remain. There has been progress, but
over the couple of decades I've been working, I've always felt that it was '2
steps forward, 1.999999 steps back".
Paul.
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> From: John Pratt <jpra...@gmail.com>
>To: fonc@vpri.org
>Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 11:21:59 AM
>Subject: [fonc] How it is
>
>Basically, Alan Kay is too polite to say what
>we all know to be the case, which is that things
>are far inferior to where they could have been
>if people had listened to what he was saying in the 1970's.
>
>Inefficient chip architectures, bloated frameworks,
>and people don't know at all.
>
>It needs a reboot from the core, all of it, it's just that
>people are too afraid to admit it. New programming languages,
>not aging things tied to the keyboard from the 1960's.
>
>It took me 6 months to figure out how to write a drawing program
>in cocoa, but a 16-year-old figured it out in the 1970's easily
>with Smalltalk.
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