I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYBasic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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