Worse is Better by Richard P. Gabriel
Future of Coding
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Is There a Difference Between a Language and a Language?
I'm sure you've had the feeling or you've heard people say how many tens of thousands of Developer hours have been wasted because of this one detail in some low-level System abstraction where if they'd done it slightly differently, we wouldn't have had this problem. So that's definitely a thing that happens, but I didn't have anything where it's like oh this is a A language where they did the right thing or this is a language where they do the worst is better other than you know The examples that Gabriel gives us I think if you put things in contrast to each other Hmm. Yeah, and when I was trying to you know, we've done this Apple Microsoft comparison But
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