totally. it is exactly the feeling i have about smalltalk and lisp.
i learned both because i wanted to know if the newer languages everyone is
using are really any better. i'd expected that they would learn and improve
over older languages. but i had to discover that that's not the case.
i used to believe that languages like python, ruby and pike were a new
generation of languages that improved over the old languages like c and c++,
but i was disappointed and had to find out that the innovation already happened
a few decades earlier and almost everything else following was a step backwards
in some ways.
:)
This is why we should continue to rethink our tools, frameworks, process
