This was a breath of fresh air. I think someone could do great good to take, say, 15 or 20 seminal papers in computer science over the last 60 years and turn th

This was a breath of fresh air. I think someone could do great good to take, say, 15 or 20 seminal papers in computer science over the last 60 years and turn them into a book that teaches history and its discarded ideas. I still think one of the biggest pieces missing from the puzzle here is the problem of notation. Kay's examples seemed to largely still be stuck in the ASCII paradigm, and I think we need to raise the abstraction so appropriate notation can be used without any restrictions. To quote Whitehead: "By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race."