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>It won because Worse Is Better I don't think this is why. I think it "won" because it was the best "high-level" language of the time and exploded to fill a hu
by shrimp_emoji 4y ago
>It won because Worse Is Better
I don't think this is why. I think it "won" because it was the best "high-level" language of the time and exploded to fill a huge niche, historically. In other words, historical luck.
I think that's also how JavaScript won.
Since it's always luck, and since the luckiest thing is rarely the "best" thing, it just looks like it's a selection for ironically worse quality from the outside.
- woodruffw 4y ago"Worse is Better" isn't meant to be derogatory: it's the term of art used by the Unix world to describe Unix and C's own adoption arc[1]. [1]: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index43bb.html?title=Main_Page&oldid=86 https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/2010-...