Some contradictions I found: > Of course we have never questioned any of this. We don’t have a direction, a path or an overall goal for programming! > Let me

Some contradictions I found: > Of course we have never questioned any of this. We don’t have a direction, a path or an overall goal for programming! > Let me ask you this: What would programming be to you in an ideal world? > We don’t know! We’ve never asked ourselves this question! When at the start of the "essay": > Turns out, we are horrible at predicting the future and we end up discarding that extra complexity. Too bad outsiders think (and will for a long time) it's a done thing. Society thinks software is the best thing since sliced bread so it's all around us. It's both a curse and a blessing. Compared to other fields, CS or engineering is relatively new. It's exciting, it will keep breaking and evolving. And that should be it. It should keep going places without restrictions, precisely because we don't know. Similarly to scientists ripping open humans on anathomical theatres in the 17th, we are having fun.