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Eve, the programming language, is dead.

It was yet another attempt to make programming easy for the non-programmer. These attempts have been going on since, uh, COBOL. Literally.

Like all the other attempts, it has largely failed - occasionally they fail in interesting ways that contribute going forward.

I have a very unpopular thesis:

Programming is hard. It requires expertise. Most people don't want to spend the time acquiring that expertise, and would prefer to focus their time on other things. Generously: their own areas of expertise. They don't want to build their car, their house, their boat, their chair. Nor their computer. That is for the experts.

Focus in programming environments and areas should be to empower the expert and improve their life and work.