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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What the fuck do you think you know? An AST node can be anything from exception scopes, to special binding behavior, to weird method specifications, to declarative config. It's literally program structure, containing any possible expressivity a programming language can express, except in a regular format that's easily transformable and generated. Shit like C++ syntax exists because of trash like Fortran and Algol catering to shit programmers, instead of expressing the power of meta-computation directly to them.