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If I understand you correctly you're probably thinking about how more concise notation systems make things easier for experts but harder for novices, e.g. maths and music scores, a…

Nice to meet ya as well! Your material looks very exciting. I'll drop you an email once I've digested it all.

That's one of my all-time favourite books so if I hadn't read it I'd be eternally thankful to you for pointing me to it =) It definitely blew my mind. It didn't make me feel that m…

Wow that's exactly how I feel. I couldn't even formulate it that well. But I'm very happy to know that other people feel this itch as well. Your sentiment of "aiming for the future…

Sorry that the style puts you off. I wanted to make a strong statement that people either strongly agree or disagree with or maybe find ridicoulous. But if it helps me finding peop…

I want to "increase the number of people who are able to write, modify, combine and share software by building a tool that makes writing software easy and fun, and accessible to ev…

That's probably the biggest weakpoint of the manifesto but also kinda on purpose. While the thesis was all about "let's build something" the manifesto is a fresh start trying to an…

I must admit that I have only very limited understanding of numeric and cryptography. But I do find these very interesting discussion points. The uncomputable real numbers are the …

Ah words. That might be the wrong one indeed. I guess I always assume the benevolence of the reader while I'm writing. But precision is important. What I meant was that in that vir…

What do you think those reasons are? In case of HyperCard I think it's that there wasn't any inter-stack-linking let alone networking. What I'm crying about is that Smalltalk was n…

Why are computers not trustworthy nor ever will be?

That's great. What's your target group?

They might not be as benign as you think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAeHuDcy_bY But I agree that this is not a software problem but a business model problem. The solution how…

What should be the punishment for premature optimization?

The thesis mentioned elsewhere contains some concrete examples but my goal with the manifesto was to get to the root of the problem I'm trying to solve which is quite abstract inde…

https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4?t=93

That's a nice example since nobody can explain how gravity works. It's the least understood force in the universe =) I agree that most people are not inquisitive but I don't think …

In the (proximate) words of Alan Kay: "Giving people what they want is marketing, given them what they need is education." I'm more interested in the latter. But I do very much agr…

That's unfortunate since I put a lot of work in these paragraphs. I'd love to know what you think would make a better case for improving software literacy.

- that's exactly what it is. And the way I see it, actors are an implementation of OOP (in it's original meaning) so I would stick with "everything in an object" - thanks =) - I ha…

Since you're 100% right I wouldn't call that cynical. It is indeed another approach to create a unified messaging standard. And yeah there are plenty and I haven't even looked at e…

I don't like the car analogy too much since a car is basically a tool while computers are a medium. I agree with you that programming languages on the other hand, definitely are to…

That's an awesome list, thanks. There seem to be two concept intermingled here though. First is decentralization which I'm a big fan of not only for social and humanitarian reason …

That's definitely an approach we should keep trying. But it hasn't worked out very well so far and I'm convinced that it's impossible to create an application that fits 100% of the…

I thought long and hard about a apt analogy and decided on "literacy" because I'm hoping that using computers as a medium for formulating and exchanging ideas would have a similar …