Yup, IOW every actual system ever built as opposed to historical trash cans of Xanadu-Utopias. I'm pragmatic :)
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While you're hoping to convert an entire industry to a new religion in one lifetime.
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Your counterfactual of clean-sheet "get theory right first" is not ugly. It has just never happened in tech.
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Sure, also Babbage before Collosus, transmission before Shannon, telegraph before radio.
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You're looking for a singular causal thread in history where there is only a pluralistic arms race of processes
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Many threads of theoretical advances/incrementalist hacking feeding off each other in parallel
