@lochan_twt its so sad and miserable at the same time, yet we all do it. and when someone else does it to us we tend to get hurt as if we wouldn't have done that ourselves in the first place. maybe, maybe not. who knows?
Computing is pop culture. Pop culture holds a disdain for history. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you’re participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future, it’s living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where their culture came from…
- Alan Kay, Dr Dobb’s Journal (2012)