[goatlover]

Then why hasn't this happened over the past 40 years? That's more than one generation of programmers over a whole lot of change from mainframes to PCS, the web, mobile devices and cloud services with thousands of programming languages and tools being invented over that time, but mostly it's incremental process. PLs today aren't radically different than they were in the 60s. It's something visionaries like Alan Kay have repeatedly complained about.

[benjaminjosephw]

New paradigms emerge when people think differently about the problems to solve or try to solve new problems. It makes sense to me that it might take more than one generation of people working on a similar set of problems before we have significantly different solutions.