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Richard P. Gabriel observed WiB in era of Lisp vs Unix, MIT vs New Jersey. Silicon Valley on the other coast and small then. Also see Dorothy Denning, talking a

Richard P. Gabriel observed WiB in era of Lisp vs Unix, MIT vs New Jersey. Silicon Valley on the other coast and small then. Also see Dorothy Denning, talking about the Windows PC era. https://faculty.nps.edu/dedennin/publications/National%20Computer%20Systems%20Security%20Award%20Speech.htm https://faculty.nps.edu/dedennin/publications/National%20Com... Redmond is in WA not CA. If your point is about commercial pressure, not just SV bashing, then please listen to my tale of David Hyatt and grad school friend (Hyatt writing draft code and rewriting five times) from the interview with Lex. That was an academic assignment, not commercial work.

BrendanEich 6y ago
Hyatt anecdote at https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6855&v=krB0enBeSiE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6855&v=krB0enBeSiE&feature=y.... The point is not about Silicon Valley, commercialization of the Web (although as Dorothy Denning observed, the pre-Web Academic Internet was a more secure world only because not many attackers yet), or academic pressure. WiB applies to biology. I have friends at a synth-bio startup, one tweeted humorously the other month about how bad a hack evolution is!