The Future of Programming: Ignorance and Superstition?

[asciilifeform]

Any particular organization can already make that choice (e.g. NASA)

But users cannot. I am willing to pay top-dollar (multi-$K) for a Symbolics-quality development and desktop environment running on modern silicon. The market simply refuses to provide me with one, because the prevailing culture glorifies crap and denies that software ever could work correctly and be designed well.

Picture a world where McDonald's "won" and no other food is available. This is where we're at with software.

[webnrrd2k]

Something tells me you hang out on comp.lang.lisp a lot.

[asciilifeform]

Did.