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This 6 year old article is still relevant but now most of the public seems very satisfied with iPhones or Android phones as their primary digital device. Even though I can hack on Haskell and Python code on my iOS devices, I see them, and am happy with them basically being appliances.

When I program, I am in portable environments (Pharo Smalltalk, Emacs with Common Lisp or Haskell) that more or less can sit on top of any general purpose OS.

If our government (I am in the USA) locks down computing devices to an extreme extent, then that will just screw up our economy and more well run tax jurisdictions (countries) will benefit.



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