Lambda the Ultimate

I wrote a blog post for my talk from Strange Loop 2013 about the framework I've come up with for describing what's wrong with programming and how we might go about fixing it. Here's an excerpt:

The other day, I came to the conclusion that the act of writing software is actually antagonistic all on its own. Arcane languages, cryptic errors, mostly missing (or at best, scattered) documentation - it's like someone is deliberately trying to screw with you, sitting in some Truman Show-like control room pointing and laughing behind the scenes. At some level, it's masochistic, but we do it because it gives us an incredible opportunity to shape our world. With a definition for what programming is and a concrete understanding of what's wrong with it, we have a framework for capturing that opportunity and removing the rest. But in order to do so, we can't just bolt it on to what we have now. Another layer of abstraction won't be enough. Instead, we have to address these fundamental problems at the very foundation of our solution. No more teacups and no more compromises.

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