A week later - I helped out finishing the 4GL UI in the meantime and completed the messaging protocol - he called me in, quite happy. He showed me the code - page after page of Emacs Lisp, with exactly zero comments "because Lisp is self-documenting". I got scared, it was an air traffic control system after all, [...]
/u/cdegroot answering Do you use Emacs Lisp as a general purpose programming language?
So, we seem to be stuck with a dysfunctional, antiquated publication system. It is time to end the debate about journals and conferences. Let us design a new publication system, something we, as computing professionals, should know how to do. We should collect system requirements, design the system, implement prototypes, experiment, and iterate. The publication system is our system. We are in charge! Technology opens new avenues, but we must be imaginative and not be bound by the dogmas of the dysfunctional past.
Moshe Vardi: Reboot the Computing-Research Publication Systems (https://doi.org/10.1145/3437991)
Sometimes it seems better to only say something afterwards.
We live in a world where "my email system was updated so I did not notice your message" is a perfectly normal thing to say.
What happened to the idea of choosing your own tools and work environments?