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Honestly I feel like this type of viewpoint is one that almost every programmer gets to after about 10 years doing real work. The difference is tact. Some hack out some experiments in new programming paradigms and some post detailed ideas or concepts of how things can be improved, and others just try to gain street cred by just saying everything is obviously shit and we are all fools for not "fixing" things.

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Well said, sir. Worth noting that this overview of where we've come from and how not far we've come was posted by a fellow is both clearly a genius, and who has his most popular github project written in x64 assembly. So I'd argue that even he sees the merit in the past when attempting to blaze a trail into the future.

For one thing, as long as our computers are binary, they are going to require instructions in a very specific way and anything we put over the top of them will expose that architecture to some degree or another.

My entire article is about things that happened between 1955 and 1969. The part where I state my thesis literally concludes "With a solid historical perspective we can dare to do better." I'm not sure how much more obvious I could make it that I "see the merit in the past when attempting to blaze a trail into the future".

It's the _present_ whose merit I find lacking.

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