Why boomers like Lisp and desktop OSes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declinism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)#Baby_duck_syndrome

Behaviour can't be morbid. Why? Well, it is very simple. Behaviour is not an in-itself thing, but, instead, a beyond-yourself thing, a reaction to your external environment, so to speak. Therefore, it cannot be a disease, because you can't tell who is in the wrong, either the environment or the person, you can only tell that there is a mismatch. In proper diseases there is an exclusively internal discordance which impacts the organism negatively no matter what environment he's in.

This hit me right in the feels

>>1
Would that mean i would love MS-DOS and Windows 3.11? I do feel nostalgic for early DOS games and the batch file tricks.

90's were the Age of DOS gaming/software. Windows was considered so bloated, "Reboot into MS-DOS" was actually a popular option to run memory-intensive stuff.

My other hand is always trying to reach the mouse when I use a phablet.
Why don't they make wireless mice for handeld devices? I'd definitely buy one.
Maybe some hacker here can make a startup with that idea, that would be great.

>>2

In proper diseases there is an exclusively internal discordance which impacts the organism negatively no matter what environment he's in.

Some literary genius must be slumming here on /prog/.

>>6
You can use Bluetooth mice with Android. I don't think you can do that with iOS though. But why bother? Some apps use multitouch gestures which are literally impossible on a mouse.

>>6
this post is so boomer that it comes with a complimentary copy of K&R C and a Monster energy drink

>>9
*sip*
C... now there was a real programming language.

You can't entirely dismiss longing for past dreams as pure nostalgia. There are good reasons why some parts of the aesthetics of Lisp, older OSes and programming practices from the past are appealing. In particular, Lisp is a mania pill that makes you believe you can build anything you want (see http://marktarver.com/bipolar.html). The other main attractive point is the (at least perceived) lack of bloat compared to modern systems. We now need what is practically a supercomputer just to browse webpages and check dubs.
Mobile OSes shit on both of those ideas: massive and visible bloat is A-ok and tablets are crappy as development platforms. The final nail in the coffin is of course web standards and current web dev practices. In wake of this, declinism does not seem so irrational, does it?

>>11

We now need what is practically a supercomputer just to browse webpages and check dubs.

What you say is not unmeaningless.