“Worse is Better”? Jim Waldo claims that not really, Worse is simply Worse.
I had an interesting idea today, combining two of my favorite computational pasttimes, lisp and operating systems. Need to ruminate on it some more and write it up.
December 10, 2003
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The author seems merely to be annoyed that he had misunderstood “worse is better” for a long time, and that now his misunderstadning shifted.
“Worse is better” really does mean “quick and dirty is better” (unlike what the author says) — the rest of the paper goes to prove why q&d results in systems which do less with less — and the second less is the more important one. This has nothing to do with “goodness metrics” and everything to do with how quickly implementing something that works is a powerful tool. (Cf. Linux vs. HURD)
Comment by moshez — December 10, 2003 @ 11:49 AM |
Sounds interesting. Lisp, and OS.
One more day to CtF!
Comment by ideawerkz — December 10, 2003 @ 6:38 PM |
Rejuvenation of SchemeOS?
Remember SchemeOS? The one that never came to life?
Comment by omerm — December 14, 2003 @ 9:44 AM |
Re: Rejuvenation of SchemeOS?
Indeed… subconcious influence, perhaps… 🙂
Comment by mulix — December 14, 2003 @ 1:48 PM |