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by trop 5819 days ago
Speaking of point & grunt, bear in mind that in the early '70s Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg were building by testing it in the Palo Alto schools. Now we grown-ups have adopted a paradigm which designed to be understood by young children.

(Though when I go back and reread Kay on this, I'm actually struck by the incredible sophistication he expected of the 12-year-olds, far from "point-and-grunt".)