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by kens
1965 days ago
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The 80-column IBM punch card was invented in 1928 and here we are almost 100 years later writing programs as a sequence of 80-column lines of text. It seems pretty obvious to me that we're stuck in a local maximum. I don't think visual programming is the solution but there must be another alternative. Sort of like how databases are based on text but are much more than text. |
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The proper response to "640K ought to be enough for anybody" is virtual memory, not 1280K.
People used to complain about Macromedia Director only having 24 layers, so they increased it to 48. But then what are you supposed to do if you want to make a map of the United States: leave out Alaska and Hawaii?