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I think that's often true for blue-sky projects. And I agree that a better understanding of the problem can lead to a reduction in complexity, but you cannot al

• seanmcdirmid 12y ago
  As long as we are talking about reinventing programming, I think we can afford it. The problem is that once you are in production, you have to ship...this is what I always got from RPG's "worse is better!"
  • mercurial 12y ago
    Of course, it's a matter of tradeoffs. It's particularly interesting to observe how Rust is moving along: since I started watching it, it has undergone a huge quantity of non-trivial changes. Which would tend to show that "worse is better" doesn't work for programming languages. Indeed, languages which have grown organically, like PHP, are not well-regarded. Maybe it's a question of surface: the smaller unpolished surface you expose to the outside, the faster you can ship something which will not turn into PHP later. If your CLI is not well thought-out, it's not a big problem, but you won't be able to make drastic, incompatible changes in syntax and semantics for a programming language with millions of existing lines (ask the Python 3 people :) ).