> After it's publication, many Unix people reinterpreted it as a celebration of Unix's successful apporach since then. The other comment below links this: http

> After it's publication, many Unix people reinterpreted it as a celebration of Unix's successful apporach since then. The other comment below links this: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf Look on book page 219 (224 in my pdf viewer), and read around the section that starts with "It is far better to have an underfeatured product that is rock solid ..." It's probably not a "reinterpretation of the Unix people". More like, the author did too good of a job by not taking sides explicitly, so everyone just interpreted it the way they liked. If anything, the author argued why "worse is better" is really better. To take the "Worse" approach just means to "not take all the unnecesssary effort" which will result in a product that exists. In other words, it's an essay about how big bang approaches don't work out.