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Don't despise modest beginnings or sloppy evolution. Sloppy evolution from a very modest beginning has achieved things that we haven't yet come close to matchin
by mwcampbell 13y ago
Don't despise modest beginnings or sloppy evolution. Sloppy evolution from a very modest beginning has achieved things that we haven't yet come close to matching through deliberate design, such as our own species. And it does this by always taking the next incremental step from what it has, with no regard for the greater elegance of some hypothetical master plan.
- pekk 13y agoAnd yet if we had to either write in or compile all our code down to QBasic in order to make web apps, we would be justified in complaining about that.
- mwcampbell 13y agoA BASIC descendant (VBScript) very nearly did become the scripting language of the Web. If it had gone that way, I'd like to think that I would tolerate it and write useful apps with it, as long as it didn't mean that Microsoft would have lasting control over the spread and evolution of the Web platform.