I am a very bottom-up thinker.
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.