Your comment reminds me of someone's essay on programming languages, and of the improved efficiency of adopting same. There was machine language, and then assembler, and then the first set of third-generation languages, and then ... C. And for all that's come along after C, there's been some progress, but in general, relatively little.
Each variant has its advantages, and disadvantages. C itself has major problems (it's insecure as hell), but ... works well enough. And so we're caught in a bit of a hairpin-bend effect.
I'd have to see a particularly good argument that this is a fundamental limitation of human minds, or of technological sociology (that is: the net effects of programmer skill and education), or something like that.
Your comment reminds me of someone's essay on programming languages, and of the improved efficiency of adopting same. There was machine language, and then assembler, and then the first set of third-generation languages, and then ... C. And for all that's come along after C, there's been some progress, but in general, relatively little.
Each variant has its advantages, and disadvantages. C itself has major problems (it's insecure as hell), but ... works well enough. And so we're caught in a bit of a hairpin-bend effect.
I'd have to see a particularly good argument that this is a fundamental limitation of human minds, or of technological sociology (that is: the net effects of programmer skill and education), or something like that.