> I really enjoyed reading someone far smarter than I am presenting these arguments clearly and concisely. I only wonder, how is it that more than 25 years late

> I really enjoyed reading someone far smarter than I am presenting these arguments clearly and concisely. I only wonder, how is it that more than 25 years later we still need to be making roughly the same points—how is it that they still feel fresh, mainly uncharted, and in need of advocacy? Anti-intellectualism is a symptom of our age and prosperity, and it infects development as well. I routinely see modeling and design slammed on this site. Time-to-market trumps everything. Experience is systematically devalued. Discipline is something that 'interrupts flow' (JS semicolon debacle). The sky is not falling, but for a site that presumably has a high contingent of skilled devs, it's a bit concerning. It's not the new-ness of the tech, it's the cavalier attitude of not learning from the past.