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.

``Knowledge'' in this context truly is as superficial as simply recognising the syntax.

Bullshit. What about the people who swarmed all over Python?

"Oh that was different syntax but it was promoted by Google, so..." -- yeah, go fuck yourself with your predictions that can explain anything.

Or maybe the parentheses are important. Maybe having a community that's focused on making shit is important, comparing to a community that's all about proving it on the internet that their way of making shit is totally superior, and it would become totally obvious if only someone got to actually make shit using their language.