> UNIX set human-accessible computing back by decades. [...] I do not agree at all. Closed-garden non-free eco systems like Windows set back computing. > Prog

> UNIX set human-accessible computing back by decades. [...] I do not agree at all. Closed-garden non-free eco systems like Windows set back computing. > Programming could have been made much more accessible, and there's consistent evidence from BASIC, Hypercard, VBA, the HTML web, and even Delphi (at a push) that the more accessible a development environment is made, the more non-developers will use it to get fun and/or useful things done. So why are they not going strong? There are implementations for BASIC for most systems and even Delphi is still available. > [...] But UNIX is a walled garden itself, designed - whether consciously or not - to lock out non-professional non-developer users [...] Assuming with UNIX you mean implementations today (like Linux) this is not true at all. I do not want to say Unix (with BSDs and Linux today) is the absolute best we can do, but I am pretty sure that it is on a local optimum in the operating systems space.