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. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
