Bob La Quey wrote:
Chuck's point, over and over again, is that our committee
approach to design (both of hardware and software) inevitably
leads to huge amounts of unnecessary complexity. Since most of
us are not as bright as Chuck and rarely can find employment
free from the burden of "the committee" we necessarily think
Chuck must be wrong.
And here is where I disagree.
Open source software is free of the "committee" effect. It's most often
a single person scratching an itch. And there are lots of people using
all manner of non-mainstream languages. For crying out loud, even
*Lisp* is seeing a resurgence because we have finally broken away from
the crowd.
Forth, however, doesn't seem to be any deader than usual.
I think he is right, but being a reasonable man I choose most
often to conform.
Brilliance may be non-conformist, but non-conformist rarely implies the
reverse.
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