Programming has really suffered from the advent of "programming languages" as a field.
@jaykreps Yeah, I'm not sure what to do about this. Alan Kay talks about how Smalltalk progress stopped once it escaped PARC.
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@jaykreps (Though it maybe seems superficial, I think this is a deep question for our field -- how do we deal with the curse of users?) -
@jaykreps Pretty much everything The Unix-Haters Handbook described two decades ago is still true. Etc. - 8 more replies
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