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I think he s talking about something else: having fun programming, not just being productive. The fact of the matter is you don't see many new concepts being in

I think he s talking about something else: having fun programming, not just being productive. The fact of the matter is you don't see many new concepts being introduced (say, garbage collection) but mostly new languages or programming styles, more ways to do the same things. And the proliferation of the web means many people work on client-server systems and interfaces. I guess it's inevitable, software engineering is mature enough nowadays and moves slowly. Maybe in 10 years it will be the geneticists' turn to complain.

Vivtek 15y ago
His point is wrong, then. Does he think that in the 70's there weren't COBOL programmers hacking out yet another set of flat-file database systems? So garbage collection is a solved issue - thank God - it just seems like he's quitting his job as patent clerk because everything's been invented already. And that's just not close to true. It's never true.