Perhaps you should stand on that soapbox a little more often. People are way to enamored with their little 1970's ed and ex derivatives. Every veteran in the f

Perhaps you should stand on that soapbox a little more often. People are way to enamored with their little 1970's ed and ex derivatives. Every veteran in the field knows that data and data structure are the primary enablers for almost any solution. Nevertheless, we have regressed in the last decades w.r.t. that. Had we had better structured (AST-driven) editors and context dependent representation, XML (or sth similar) might have taken off. Personally, I blame the exponential increase in inflow of new developers. Nothing but reinventing the wheel without knowing history.