A Possible Future of Software Development

This is what Dijkstra said software development should be!

This sounds a great deal like why Erlang uses functional programming (no side effects) and actor-based messaging. A spreadsheet is the most common sort of functional programming. You have established a sort of analogy between a spreadsheet, a DAG and your programming tasks. It seems like this suggests that we are going to see more functional programming. Time to brush up on Lisp/Scheme/Clojure, Erlang, Scala or F#.

Does anyone have a citation for the survey paper mentioned around 0:50:00?

Sorry - I haven't been monitoring the questions here. Paper mentioned (incorrectly attributed to Doug Gregor - who's done other good work) is:
Ronald Garcia, Jaakko Järvi, Andrew Lumsdaine, Jeremy Siek, and Jeremiah Willcock. An Extended Comparative Study of Language Support for Generic Programming. Journal of Functional Programming, 17(2):145--205, March 2007

The internet ruined everything, lowering the standards of what a "computer programmer" is.

yeah...real programmers work with a magnet.

yeah, sure... Did you know that Adobe revolutionized the print industry with PostScript then PDF, "fag software" like Illustrator, they were the first to use Bézier curves for vector graphics, etc.

"without Macromedia's technology Adobe will be history today ..."
Creating Fireworks would be impossible without using technologies invented by Adobe.

Or at least, that is my opinion :)

Hahaha. True.

Can't wait till Windows 7 comes out. This concept reminds me of SimpleBasic and Boku and XNA concepts.