Thanks for sharing, interesting article. 13 years later and his takes are still quite relevant. With the AI era, now seems as good a time as any to consider a new paradigm for the Web (and other tools), but things always move slower than we think.
> There's nothing wrong with that, except that when you have something like the Industrial Revolution squared, you wind up setting de facto standards — in this case, really bad de facto standards. Because what you definitely don't want in a Web browser is any features.
> That's why I never use PowerPoint. PowerPoint is just simulated acetate overhead slides, and to me, that is a kind of a moral crime. That's why I always do, not just dynamic stuff when I give a talk, but I do stuff that I'm interacting with on-the-fly. Because that is what the computer is for.
Also, lol
> Kay: I was never a great programmer. That's what got me into making more powerful programming languages.
_wire_•6mo ago
tl;dr
Nothing of substance discussed; a typical Kay ramble hosted so as to adorn an issue of Dobb's.
wxw•6mo ago
> There's nothing wrong with that, except that when you have something like the Industrial Revolution squared, you wind up setting de facto standards — in this case, really bad de facto standards. Because what you definitely don't want in a Web browser is any features.
> That's why I never use PowerPoint. PowerPoint is just simulated acetate overhead slides, and to me, that is a kind of a moral crime. That's why I always do, not just dynamic stuff when I give a talk, but I do stuff that I'm interacting with on-the-fly. Because that is what the computer is for.
Also, lol
> Kay: I was never a great programmer. That's what got me into making more powerful programming languages.