This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

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On 9/1/2018 7:36 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/1/2018 2:15 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 08:19:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 8/31/2018 11:59 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>>> For example, in any CS program, are there any courses at all about
>>>>> this?
>>>> Yes, we had them on my degree,
>>>
>>> I'm curious how the courses you took compared with the articles I
>>> wrote about it.
>>
>> I will read the articles later, but as overview, we learned about:
>> [...]
> It appears to have nothing related to what the articles are about.
> 
> I'm rather sad that I've never seen these ideas outside of the aerospace
> industry. Added to that is all the pushback on them I get here, on
> reddit, and on hackernews.

Some people do. I should take this opportunity to plug one of Alan Kay's
great talks.

"Programming and Scaling"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyIQKBzIuBY

But Kay definitely isn't a Hacker News/Reddit darling, even though he's
well respected. He's too critical of the current state of software
engineering. Rightfully so, if you ask me.