The Best Way To Predict The Future

The Only Way You Can Predict The Future Is To Build It.

I Fear - As Far As I Can Tell - That Most Undergraduate Degrees In Computer Science These Days Are Basically Java Vocational Training.

The Internet Was Done So Well That Most People Think Of It As A Natural Resource Like The Pacific Ocean, Rather Than Something That Was Man-made. When Was The Last Time A Technology With A Scale Like That Was So Error-free? The Web, In Comparison, Is A Joke. The Web Was Done By Amateurs.

Basic Would Never Have Surfaced Because There Was Always A Language Better Than Basic For That Purpose. That Language Was Joss, Which Predated Basic And Was Beautiful. But Basic Happened To Be On A Ge Timesharing System That Was Done By Dartmouth, And When Ge Decided To Franchise That, It Started Spreading Basic Around Just Because It Was There, Not Because It Had Any Intrinsic Merits Whatsoever.

Perl Is Another Example Of Filling A Tiny, Short-term Need, And Then Being A Real Problem In The Longer Term.