"This Archaeology of Errors is no place for the application programmers of old: it takes a skilled programmer with years of experience just to build simple appl

"This Archaeology of Errors is no place for the application programmers of old: it takes a skilled programmer with years of experience just to build simple applications on today’s web. " I'm not sure HTML + JavaScript is any more or less easy than HyperCard + HyperTalk. I agree that nobody would design the web to be what it is right now if they had the chance to start over, but there's also something to be said for the force of Darwinism in selecting out decent technologies. And every major web technology right now is just that - decent. Not great - decent.