> Programming is not harder than it used to be. For example, I was programming Macs in the pre-Internet era which meant lots of thick books. Same here, and I w

> Programming is not harder than it used to be. For example, I was programming Macs in the pre-Internet era which meant lots of thick books. Same here, and I was a kid who a) had no idea what he was doing b) couldn't afford to buy Inside Macintosh c) really had no idea what he was doing. But honestly, I achieved more with C and some cargo-culted System 7 (6?) Pascal calls than I have with Go, with respect to UIs. I achieved more with HyperTalk than I have with Common Lisp, with respect to full-fledged application environments. Honestly, HyperTalk was by far the single most productive system I've ever used in my life. Life was pretty great back then. I can only imagine how much better it could have been with highspeed Internet in my home. Or maybe we'd just be on the dozenth round of Macintosh Toolbox wrappers written by sleep-deprived college students by now.