Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.