Are we in the worst of all possible worlds?

Good people are constantly being supplanted in favour of the greedy and sociopathic, over and over and over again.

Imagine if Gary Kildall had made the deal with IBM as was supposed to happen, instead of Gates.

http://www.tomrolander.com/GaryKildall/In%20memory%20of%20Gary%20Kildall.htm

Gary Kildall tried to push elegance in software. Imagine sane computing. Imagine if this person had influence over computing that Gates ended up having.

Actually, I can't imagine it, because some other monster would have come along. The demons are everywhere.

The human race is comprised of mostly nasty, selfish monsters. Our being conscious is a mistake and we shouldn't even be here, but that is a topic for another day.

People who try to do good seem to get stopped before they go too far, while the greedy monsters are completely free to run amok.

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I've been saying this for years. People put up with extreme bullshit from the popular languages, and learn all sorts of convoluted fuckery in order to get anything real done. They're simultaneously too stupid to understand anything in any other language than they're own, no matter how beneficial it might be. If it shows up in their own language, all of a sudden they magically gain the ability to understand it.

This is getting circular.

Me: if Lisp's problem is that it's too complicated for code monkeys because it has lambdas, how come those code monkeys code in CPS as demanded by the latest JS framework (which also involves using lambdas)?

Anon: Oh, that's because those code monkeys only code in what they know.

Me: if Lisp's problem is that it's unknown to the code monkeys, how come those code monkeys routinely swarm over totally unknown to them JS frameworks and learn to code in CPS to use them?

Anon: Oh, that's because those code monkeys can't understand lambdas.

What the shit. How about not repeating that ad infinitum and agree that maybe Lisp SUCKS for reasons entirely unrelated to the laundry list of supported features?

That maybe there's more to designing a language than making a Self-Contained Beautiful Right Thing and leaving the boring implementation details like making it actually useful to the fans of your Right Thing who recursively try to solve that problem with the Right Thing approach?

The only solution is mass euthanization. These ass-backwards parasitic shitfuckers are an offense to humanity and sensible reality itself. Kill every last one of them.

Yeah, the final solution is to kill all people who produce barely useful software, that would re-qualify the unuseable software produced by the Lisp Übermensch as being the best ever, mission accomplished!

Check out "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. It's satire by the way, normal people don't cheer for that sort of an approach.