In the spirit of equivocation when I look at the world we live in and and note the trends then I feel worse, not better.
-David Leibs On Oct 31, 2013, at 11:10 AM, David Barbour <[email protected]> wrote: > The phrase "Worse is better" involves an equivocation - the 'worse' and > 'better' properties are applied in completely different domains (technical > quality vs. market success). But, hate it or not, it is undeniable that > "worse is better" philosophy has been historically successful. > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:50 PM, David Leibs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > I get your point but I have really grown to dislike that phrase "Worse is > Better". Worse is never better. Worse is always worse and worse never > reduces to better under any set of natural rewrite rules. Yes there are > advantages in the short term to being first to market and things that are > worse can have more mindshare in the arena of public opinion. > > "Worse is Better" sounds like some kind of apology to me. > > cheers, > -David Leibs > > On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Chris Warburton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Unfortunately, a big factor is also the first-to-market pressure, >> otherwise known as 'Worse Is Better': you can reduce the effort required >> to implement a system by increasing the effort required to use it. The >> classic example is C vs LISP, but a common one these days is >> multithreading vs actors, coroutines, etc. > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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