The Deep Insights of Alan Kay

Re:The Deep Insights of Alan Kay by pbreit on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @03:59PM (#5294875)

I don't think the dig on the "web amateurs" is fair. It seems clear to me that the simple and, perhaps, amateurish underpinnings of the web (http & HTML) ended up being a great strength.

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Re:The Deep Insights of Alan Kay by moe on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @10:28PM (#5296798)

I disagree.

HTTP is defensible, HTML also has its time and place.

But what it evolved into (HTML/CSS/JS) is pretty obviously a dead-end waiting to happen. The number of hacks we pile on one another for a "modern web-application" is nothing short of ridiculous.

Realistically we still live in the internet stone-age, helplessly piling up stones and wooden sticks...

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