I have a blog post about this in the making, but in the meantime, I'd like to point out that there is zero quantifiable evidence to RPG's worse is better thesis

I have a blog post about this in the making, but in the meantime, I'd like to point out that there is zero quantifiable evidence to RPG's worse is better thesis. There are many aspects of Lisp/LispMachines vs C/Unix that can account for why they're used where they are, and he completely ignores the obvious ones that people have (and continue to!) complain about: C/Unix is cheap/free and runs everywhere. This wasn't the case for Common Lisp until the early 2000s! I think RPG's good news, bad news came to the wrong conclusion and made some inappropriate dichotomies (Right Thing vs Worse is Better) that unfortunately have become memes that lead people astray.