Yeah, it's sad. It's the Worse is Better effect combined with momentum of legacy systems. You have to reuse things that have momentum to increase odds of your o

Yeah, it's sad. It's the Worse is Better effect combined with momentum of legacy systems. You have to reuse things that have momentum to increase odds of your own thing having momentum. Three examples coming to mind were C++ building on C, successors using C-like syntax, and a number of languages integrating Java or .NET libraries. Those clean-slating solid concepts usually didn't go anywhere.