A programmer's visceral reaction to this Alan Kay quote is a personality test:
"So all you had to do to read a tape in 1961 was read the front part of one of these records into core storage and start jumping indirect through the pointers and the procedures were there. [...] HTML on the Internet has gone back to the dark ages, because it presupposes that there should be a browser that understands its formats."
Per Vognsen
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