I own a copy of this book and it's one of the computing books that I own that makes me sad, because you realize how far we have come and yet how little progress

I own a copy of this book and it's one of the computing books that I own that makes me sad, because you realize how far we have come and yet how little progress we have made too compared to where we should be. When folks ask me what IDE I use, I tell them Unix and I get strange looks. I use to try to explain, but I don't. If they get it they get it, if they don't oh well. As a polygot I can't couple myself to any language specific GUI IDE. Unix & vim has served me all these years and my workflow is still the same. Yet I know it's still very primitive. Working with lisp/clojure, smalltalk, python, prolog, apl/j, forth and using emacs yields the same experience. perhaps some javascript. The only serious attempt I have seen to move this field forward was by Bret Victor http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/