[hackinthebochs]

Certainly there was some extrapolation on my part (though I do find it amusing that I got the two-fingered part right). I was using your posts mainly as a jumping off point for discussion seeing as they seemed to be in the spirit of the mentality I was referring to.

The fact is we are being constrained by the past. We still program in plain text files, using languages and environments that are as basic as possible presumably to maximize flexibility of development. I don't see the point. There are those that eschew the mouse, or GUIs because the terminal is cool (or something). The fact is that this field is moving towards more and more tooling, hopefully improved visualization, and soon to be automation (imagine APIs automatically wiring themselves up, or the gruntwork drudgery of programming happening automatically). This is the future we should all be looking forward to, not placing arbitrary constraints on the languages and environments we use for the purpose of compatibility with outdated tools. The more constraints we place on ourselves, the longer this future will take to become reality.