Lisp, C and Unix are over 40 years old

Hardware has improved immensely over the past 40 years, but software has barely advanced since the early 70s. What gives?

what'd constitute a 'software advancement'?

>>2
Huge ass buttons and interfaces ``optimized'' for shitty imprecise touch screens.

videogames

>>2

Lisp, C and Unix

>>1
I have no idea what you mean, but CS has advance so much, there's an AI built that programs, and keeps optimizing it's programs, built on a lisp dialect, I forgot the sources for.

There's also advancements in OCR, to the point robots can learn from images.

Like >>2 said

what'd constitute a 'software advancement' [to you]?

>>6

there's an AI built that programs, and keeps optimizing it's programs, built on a lisp dialect,

citation neneded

>>6

A lot of AI problems were solved, but mostly due to smart hardware, like MS Kinect. Google Car just uses a lot of sensors and simple software.

>>8
And what ``AI problems'' would those be?

>>9

Israeli developer PrimeSense, which developed a system that can interpret specific gestures, making completely hands-free control of electronic devices possible by using an infrared projector and camera and a special microchip to track the movement of objects and individuals in three dimensions.[16][17][18] This 3D scanner system called Light Coding[19] employs a variant of image-based 3D reconstruction.[20][21]

>>7

I forgot the sources for.

Here are some preliminary stuff, but I posted in case some recalls the AI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation

>>11

Yudkowsky

these articles made my bullshit detector overflow.

Software has advanced as much as hardware and hardware has advanced much more than you believe is possible. Real Lispers were able to build Lisp machines with very little hardware by today's standards. Having to run C prevents a lot of ways to design hardware and operating systems.
-Lisp machines are verboten.
-Single address spaces with bounds checking are verboten.
-Software isolated processes are verboten.
-Segmented architectures are verboten.
-Tagged architectures are verboten.
-Capability machines are verboten.
-Many other novel CPU designs are verboten.
Running C limits you to computers that look like a PDP-11 and that was the reason for its promotion. C was promoted by certain RISC hardware companies to keep other hardware companies from making better hardware and compilers. C requires much more code to do anything compared to other languages, which increases the amount of C on the machine. On a CISC, some of that code reimplements CPU instructions in a slower way, but not on a RISC. That further increases the advantages RISCs have over both traditional CISCs and more novel architectures.