Comment by corinroyal

> Solution is to stop using languages low level like C except where it matters, and improve the UI capabilities of higher level like Lisp.

This is my conclusion too. None of the reasons C/UNIX won are valid anymore and it's essential kludgyness has cost us incalculable time, money and brain space. Imagine what the open source community might have achieved with a real high-level language. Instead we've given them layer upon layer of inadequate tools and told them that if they can't manage the mess they are too dumb. So we spend more and more time in maintenance than in development. Who wants to juggle pointers, increment counters, and do their own garbage collection in a Jenga tower when they could just write their own nouns and verbs in Lisp? I'll be working on exactly this.