Yes, so true. I grew up with stacks of floppy disks with huge statically linked applications. The whole era was preoccupied with basically one massive problem:

Yes, so true. I grew up with stacks of floppy disks with huge statically linked applications. The whole era was preoccupied with basically one massive problem: how to achieve modularization and some degree of reuse. Now these issues are still important but cheap storage and fast, always available communication has changed software development to the point where Alan Kay's points sound a bit like misplaced puritanism. I respect him but I don't think his views have the relevance they once did.