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Our tools are so far behind mostly because everyone’s thinking is still chained to 1970’s hand editing text files mentality. People IN THE LITERAL 197
by al2o3cr 5y ago
Our tools are so far behind mostly because everyone’s
thinking is still chained to 1970’s hand editing text
files mentality.
People IN THE LITERAL 1970s were talking about this exact idea. We still don't have this, for anything other than highly-specialized applications (for instance, equation editors in word processors).
It's almost like it's way, way, way harder to deliver software than it is to handwave about how much better things would be if people just listened to YOU.
- cellularmitosis 5y ago> if people just listened to YOU. Not really the tone I had intended, but it looks like that's the tone which came across. To be more explicit: "It's a shame there's no money in next-gen tooling"
- morelisp 5y agoTons of money got dumped into 4GLs and 5GLs. For the time just unbelievable sums, and a whole generation of PL research. Almost all down the toilet.