That's funny. OK, I get your point as well. My only counter might be that Ulysses is a monumental work of art. We don't have anything like that in software -

That's funny. OK, I get your point as well. My only counter might be that Ulysses is a monumental work of art. We don't have anything like that in software -- and not just because we don't have a Joyce. We lack that standardized alphabet. That we compile/interpret programs, that we have a completely different language for data access, that we have in-memory data structures, I could go on and on -- it's all getting in our way from creating something monumental. (I feel like I'm cheating a bit; I've seen the other side and it's beautiful.)