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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me Meanwhile, to do anything over the network today, you just pack everything into HTTP with no standard serialization, no binding to programming languages, no function prototypes, type checking, language exceptions whatsoever, it's just a big JSON file. It's hard to say which one is a step forward and which one is a step back.

Perhaps the late 90s was the ALGOL equivalent of networked OOP - extremely powerful, seen as silver bullet. Consequence was a system too big and overcomplicated so went out of favor soon, and everything came after that was less powerful, sometimes even as an anti-thesis to that (e.g. BCPL and C), with its own consequence of being too crude.