If you see magazines and computing TV shows from the 1980s, this is exactly what people expected computers to be able to do by the year 2000: Everyone would have a computer and write their own app for whatever they needed in a language close to plain English.
The fragmentation between programming languages and proprietary operating systems is exactly what hindered that optimism from coming true.
The fragmentation between programming languages and proprietary operating systems is exactly what hindered that optimism from coming true.