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The Future We Never Got, Running A Future We Got (hackaday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The idea of Java was grand. Too many of the people who were involved in making it had been corrupted by C++, though. If it had been people who had come up with Lisp and Smalltalk, the execution would have had some elegance, and it maybe could have been a masterpiece.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

-Alan Kay