Is Worse Really Better?

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Worse is Better

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free-market philosophy favors incremental over radical improvements

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Software vs Capitalism

the-right-thing systems aren’t better

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"better" (better performing) programs can be written by low-talent programmers

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There is a real chance that some form of worse-is-better is valid, and that because of its compelling force, C++ will be elevated to the role of premier object-oriented language. And for us who are concerned with the success of object-oriented programming, this is chilling—the future will be in the hands of the worst of our fruits.

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