"Programming ... is now the province of those who prefer to work with thick compendia of details rather than wrestle with new ideas".
Backus seminal paper: Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs.
Ideas still valid today. And that was written before object oriented programming!
What happened to software? Why is there so few creative software (2010)? Are we at the end of software? What are the forces which led to this situation, looking like a bit step backward to the epoch of non-programmable accounting machines? Is there a way out of this situation? Yes, and a very simple one: make good software. With invention. Developing models and abstractions. It is difficult but absolutely possible. It this re-start of software I wish to explore here in this blog. Welcome
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