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Worse is Better by Richard P. Gabriel

Future of Coding

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The Third Paper Is Worse Is Better Design Philosophy

Richard Borbaki: The third paper is worse really better, which is really just a hey Let me get a do over of some explanations from the first paper that I kind of flubbed a little bit. "I don't agree with the rebuttal that there is no worse is better design philosophy," he says in response to an article on Unix and its complexity. He argues that systems should be designed such that Complexity is pushed onto the user instead of being in the internals of the system. 'It does seem to have an influence on whether your software is going to be adopted and survive'

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