I look back at the beginning of the PC era, which I hated.
We had modern multi-user and multi-tasking operating systems. We had decent high-level languages.
But the PC era started with DOS, a single-user operating system. And basic, which was so unsophisticated.
But looking back later I realized that the unsophisticated operating system and the unsophisticated language... they let normal people do things. You didn't need to understand semaphores or event-driven programming to make simple single-user programs.
And I kind of see people stuck in this distracting learning environment with too many moving parts, I think back.
There are projects like NAND2Tetris that IMO successfully capture that ethos. I’m also heartened by the retro movement, which keeps going from strength to strength.
We had modern multi-user and multi-tasking operating systems. We had decent high-level languages.
But the PC era started with DOS, a single-user operating system. And basic, which was so unsophisticated.
But looking back later I realized that the unsophisticated operating system and the unsophisticated language... they let normal people do things. You didn't need to understand semaphores or event-driven programming to make simple single-user programs.
And I kind of see people stuck in this distracting learning environment with too many moving parts, I think back.