...the rigor Kay is suggesting would kill the software industry as we know it. You say that like it's a bad thing. Anyone's plans to make software sane would

...the rigor Kay is suggesting would kill the software industry as we know it. You say that like it's a bad thing. Anyone's plans to make software sane would kill the software industry as people love and hate it. A substantial portion of this industry involves supporting horrific abortions of a system that seem to live far too long. That includes the functional programming people and anyone who believes some method of theirs will produce an explosion of productivity. Hopefully, the effect will be people quickly rewriting old systems to be sane and creating many new system. Unfortunately, such starry eyed idealism is unlikely to be realized and the rolling a 1000 pounds of jello up a hill jobs are safe. But this kind of idealism is still needed to motivate the systems builders so it's not a complete loss.