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.

>>10

Computers and software where people could achieve what you describe were invented then summarily ignored by the general public.

Not really. When has it ever been easy to send a secure email? When has it ever been easy to manage a web-of-trust? Why is there no program that can keep encrypted full-text search indexes of encrypted emails?

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.

They were way before their time, and you can't blame users for not being able to judge systems correctly when programmers themselves sometimes can't.

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.

Those people would churn shit code anyway regardless of the programming environment. Give them Lisp and they'll abuse macros, the metaobject system, and the typesystem to kingdom come.

>>13
Oh ho ho, I guess we hit a nerve there, white trash.