Quoting Richard P. Gabriel, The Rise of Worse is Better, 1991

I have intentionally caricatured the worse-is-better philosophy to convince you that it is obviously a bad philosophy and that the New Jersey approach is a bad approach.

However, I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form, has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing, and that the New Jersey approach when used for software is a better approach than the MIT approach.

— Richard P. Gabriel, The Rise of Worse is Better, 1991

6:53pm on August 18, 2024.


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