This is only true if you assume C-like syntax is the "default."

But regardless of that, I'd argue that there's much less syntax to learn in LISPy languages. The core of it is really just one single syntactic concept.

Bad old days indeed!

I mean I'm perfectly aware that language is a descriptive cultural process etc etc but man this bugs the crap out of me for some reason

But even if someone had, I will happily propose that every parent who cares about being a parent is an expert on parenting.

- Complication creep

- Complication-complete

- Complication requests

But yeah, there's a point at which you have to ask where waterfall begins and agile ends in reality it's blurry. Prototyping is essentially in most nontrivial problems, so if you count prototyping as agile then shrug but ultimately it doesn't matter what we call it

We're going to need some evidence for this claim. I feel like nearly 70 years of NASA has something to say about this.

And yeah the adaptation was so, so weak. But it faced the same problem many horror movies do, which is that if you're forced to show the Thing™ it loses all its power.