"Genera's design philosophy holds that no action of the software should be hidden from the designer"<p>So refreshing and edgy even to this day.<p>Also says a lot about the "New Jersey" model that CS as a whole pivoted to (see UNIX haters handbook), where every damn thing is hard , opaque and/or hidden, either in propreitary blobs, or not much differently, in complex unreliable build systems, and binary blobs.<p>A bit sad that we're moving back out of this religious dogma of the 70s with half-baked lisps like Python etc.