The Pleasure of Being Cummed Inside

SICP, 1986:
- recursive tree walks
- AI
- lisp
- prolog
- magic

2013:
- overengineered nonsense like visual studio and java
- hipstr.js, a new "framework" that uses 120% of your CPU to do nothing useful
- "cloud" computing, a return to 1960's remote-access services in lieu of personal computing, for the greater profit of software giants
- fisherprice "apps" the design of which assumes computer users are 3 years old

Today Apple with their "user-friendly" unprogrammable devices are king, enslaving people into believing that a "computer" is a gadget for wasting time on websites and not a means of computing things

If you don't buy new "devices" every year and contribute your share to world pollution, you're not cool. Even though we now have many gigahertz of CPU and many gigabytes of RAM, upgrades are considered proper etiquette.

When software lets you connect with customers when and where they want, that's business with .NET.

When objects fall back to the ground after they are thrown, that's business with gravity.

As they said in the olden days before this website was run over by spammers and racists, DISCUSS.

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Computers are dumbed down for the same reason mathematics and actual programming isn't popular - people have made it abundantly clear that they aren't interested in the concepts and subtle ideas that are an absolute prerequisite for doing more than the unimaginative App coder provided, for using the computer with skill and grace.

Computers and software where people could achieve what you describe were invented then summarily ignored by the general public. Lisp machines and systems, and the Smalltalk machines of Engelbart/Kay for example. You can't make a general purpose computing instrument gentler on people who don't want to learn anything without apping apps and Fisher-Price toys that won't scare them away.

For your health.
SPAGHETT