Time for you to read "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan

And Einstein

Julius Caesar was smart. I would compare Trump more to Pompeius.

...in our general direction :-p

Wasn't that the scenario of an episode of "Six Million Dollar Man"?

"Huckleberry Finn's Father" syndrome

Actually, no rationale, only rationalisation from the Green party, and fear of radiation.

45 years ago, the Green parties should have feared CO2.

So, when will the Heritage Foundation be torched and its members put against the wall?

As illustrated by Mark Twain, 140 years ago, in "Huckleberry Finn".

Yeah, tough.

More than a while ago, I think somewhere at the end of the '90s. I think it was in Belgium that the weekly magazine Humo had an article or a series of articles about that.

Would he be the 21st century Pompeius?

Could have started with Common Lisp, and use an implementation like SBCL for speed.

But every language needs to evolve in its own pace, getting features that Common Lisp already had decades ago. And then call them new. Oh, and not so properly implemented as in Common Lisp.

This is my opinion too. What happened in the last twenty years is that a whole lot of existing techniques got named, not that they got invented. Some might, because of the naming, have been developed more extensively, like test driven programming. But I am pretty sure that anybody who needed to prove or check something about his programs or structures, first wrote some tests.

Pair programming? Been there (by accident) in the 90's. Yes, looking with two pair of eyes on the code will speed up things, but you can't extrapolate this into infinity.

What is now called "DevOps" was also something that was already done before the term was coined. The pipeline of ticket entry, version control, building and change management did exist before 2009.