endless automata

So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture.

Yes, that was the big revelation to me when I was in graduate school—when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!”

I fear — as far as I can tell — that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.