To the young programmers of the World!

The cry of the rebellion we launch here, in which we firmly implant our ideals alongside those
of the Futurist painters, does not come from a little aesthetic minded clique but, on the
contrary, expresses the violent desire that seethes in the veins of every creative programmer
today.

We want to fight to the bitter end against the fanatical, thoughtless, and purely snobbish
religious faith in the past, stoked by the nefarious existence of the academic journals. We
are rebelling against the sluggishly supine admiration for old operating systems, old
languages, archaic standards, and against the enthusiasm for everything bug-ridden, rotting
with code bloat, and eaten away by obsolescence. And we judge unjust – criminal in fact –
the habitual disdain for programs whose construction is different and original, new,
throbbing with life.