How is that George Santayana thing? "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"?
I like seeing new ideas being tested in the OS arena. It's a real shame the two dominant OSs these days are Unix and VMS. I refuse to believe these two are the best humans can come up with.
"The good news is that in 1995 we will have a good operating system and programming language; the bad news is that they will be Unix and C++."
The predicted date was a little early, but otherwise he pretty much got it right. I think that, from a late 80s Lisp perspective, modern Windows fits into the "UNIX" category, and Java/C#/ObjC/whatever are close enough to C++ to count.
wouldn't say so - my first Linux machine (slackware, shoebox of diskettes :) i installed exactly in the 95 :)
>from a late 80s Lisp perspective, modern Windows fits into the "UNIX" category
while psychotropic mind-altering effects of Lisp are well known, i'd doubt that it can produce such perception changes or even in such a direction.