Given that the word 'software' only really started appearing around 50 years ago [1], that might be a stretch, but nonetheless, I think you do our current set o

Given that the word 'software' only really started appearing around 50 years ago [1], that might be a stretch, but nonetheless, I think you do our current set of technologies a disservice. I'm sure it would be relatively incidental for the majority of HN readers to cobble something together that fulfils this sort of functionality without much work. If your complaint is that languages don't form higher abstractions of things like 'thumbnails', I think that is just due to us collectively preferring the flexibility of lower level code - it's certainly not because it would be difficult to create a language with such abstractions. [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=software&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csoftware%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=software&year_...