Comments on: Berkeley SICP videos http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2006/01/06/berkeley-sicp-videos/ random thoughts on programming and programming languages Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:01:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Ricardo http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2006/01/06/berkeley-sicp-videos/#comment-30687 Ricardo Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:29:55 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2006/01/06/berkeley-sicp-videos/#comment-30687 I am not at all surprised with the level of sophistication we have not achieved after the original Smalltalk, the Xerox Star family, Lisa or the Lisp machines. We live in a world where diversity, in stark difference to that "golden age" you refer to, is no longer the norm. Those days, people built computers with the goal of being the best computer possible and were prepared to develop computer and software to match each other. Today people build computers not to be the best computers possible, but to be able to run the current incarnation of Windows. I am not at all surprised with the level of sophistication we have not achieved after the original Smalltalk, the Xerox Star family, Lisa or the Lisp machines.

We live in a world where diversity, in stark difference to that “golden age” you refer to, is no longer the norm. Those days, people built computers with the goal of being the best computer possible and were prepared to develop computer and software to match each other. Today people build computers not to be the best computers possible, but to be able to run the current incarnation of Windows.

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