I only tried to make a picture, but you quoted the wrong parts of my picture. I 
will explain what is wrong today: Do you know prof Wirth? You probably know 
that he created Pascal. What not a lot of guys know is that after he created 
Pascal he continued with new languages, Modula and after that he created 
Oberon. Now Oberon 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(programming_language)> is a language 
that is different from the rest of most programming languages because of a 
couple of things: It compiled like a rocket, was type safe, completely garbage 
collected, it did have modules and objects, was safe and a lot more. It was 
designed in a reaction to Ada and C++. Most of all, it was simple.

The problem is that this language was designed in the 1980s and still today 
nobody knows it. Why? I don't know. Maybe it was because "the industry took 
off", but it was miles ahead of both Ada and C++. Oberon was a very well 
designed language.

If an operating system was designed in Oberon then you don“t have to worry 
about a lot of things. Then you would be productive and you wouldn't need to 
wait for hours because it is compiling. And Oberon also only compiles the 
modules. There is no linker, so you end up with lots of tiny compiled modules.

I still don't believe you understand what I am trying to say. So I am going to 
repeat what I said before:

So, to answer your question, fixing something like this is probably impossible, 
because of all the hardware and software that is involved. You just can't push 
the picture of an elephant into a mice-like device and the other way around.

The only thing that does work is simplicity, but we are miles away from that.

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