> Our current state is a big disappointment compared to where most programmers in the 80s believed we would be by now, and very much in line with Brooks's pouri

> Our current state is a big disappointment compared to where most programmers in the 80s believed we would be by now, and very much in line with Brooks's pouring of cold water People not exposed to this era almost have a hard time believing it. My litmus test is this: how easy is it for any person to make a button in a given computing system? On a Mac in the late 90s this was so easy that non-programmers were doing it (Hypercard). Today where would one even begin?