Redefining terms that have precise meanings into terms that have imprecise meanings based on vulgar precedent is a symptom of a pop culture. Cue Alan Kay quote in 3, 2, 1, ...
It's a symptom of language, and it's impossible to stop.
So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture."
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In Shakespeare's day, his plays were ribald entertainment for the masses. People are continuously complaining about how the old ways were better, and one is entitled to one's opinion, but the old ways are in the past and gone. Soon the last person who remembers them will be dead and there will be no one to complain about it, so what's the point?
"In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture, similar to what happened when widespread literacy came on the scene and some of its perpetrators thought it would be a way of getting the Bible to the masses. But they forgot that you have to be more sophisticated and have more perspective to understand the Bible. What books were able to do was capture people as they were."