@enkiv2 most of the real progress in the last 15 years was the love child of the 90s growing up and trying to find herself.

Actual academic ideas can be absurdly brilliant. But the cult of DIY, startups, home hackers, and anti-formal education removes the ability to access and understand the academic ideas without taking time to acquire deeper knowledge.

@enkiv2 worth noting is that there were roughly 4 cultures running in 1980:

Academics - lisp & Standard ML weirdos doing far out research into dynamic environments.

Unix - C C C c c c c fortran mail servers tcp ftp sysadmin. most OS research from academics got tossed in a can and forgotten.

Business - cobol cobol APL assembly IBM Microsoft woo wooo. research was done in software engineering.

Most of the 90s involved business and unix getting jiggy and forgetting all research.

@enkiv2 I blame Unix for basically creating generations of programmers that can't think in a mindset other than Unix; ignoring not just the past, but the present

at this it's a Unix tautology, not a philosophy