"You can say the burden is on us old-timers to tell you what's missing or we shouldn't be whining. But I don't see it that way. I see the burden is on the victors, who have the resources and who claim their way is better, to show us that they won for good reason."
Rob Pike: "We really are using a 1970s era operating system well past its sell-by date."
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/18/11532...
And, elsewhere, by others:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/b2c0190dc3...
"You can say the burden is on us old-timers to tell you what's missing or we shouldn't be whining. But I don't see it that way. I see the burden is on the victors, who have the resources and who claim their way is better, to show us that they won for good reason."