Joel Reymont: Worse is better

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I have not tried thinking about my attempts to do the right thing in Lisp from a philosophical prospective. Writing that Lisp is a pain in the rear prompted this comment from Aaron and some introspection on my part.Joel,I have enjoyed following your attempts to build systems in Erlang and Lisp. But while I admire those languages tremendously, I think you have run into a larger, more fundamental problem. Richard Gabriel calls it the worse is better problem. It is a complex idea, but from the lan ... (more)

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