- good ideas too early don't grow, but they reemerge as genes for subsequent generations (closure, pattern matching, immutability etc are all back in fashion)
- there's a paradoxical idea of great pioneering ideas that die before becoming mainstream on their own but need future lesser vessels to shine anonymously. somehow the past was better but couldn't be.. how many other nice things were partially lost ?
- good ideas too early don't grow, but they reemerge as genes for subsequent generations (closure, pattern matching, immutability etc are all back in fashion)
- there's a paradoxical idea of great pioneering ideas that die before becoming mainstream on their own but need future lesser vessels to shine anonymously. somehow the past was better but couldn't be.. how many other nice things were partially lost ?