On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:58:54 +0100
Peter Wiehe <peter.wiehe2_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Peter,
> It seems that you like Plan9 and dislike the Linux kernel. And you
> seem to agree to "Worse is Better" which is presented here:
> https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
> (I think "Better" is also called "It needs a tough cook/programmer to
> make a chicken tender" or similar.)
>
> But that seems to be a contradiction! For me Plan9 seems to be of the
> "better" kind (Some effort was done to create a simple interfac) and
> Linux seems of the "worse" kind (Minimal effort in elegant design).
> ("Better" and "worse" not judging but strictly in the context as
> mentioned above.)
>
> Any clarification on this is welcome.
I always understood the "Worse is better" principle to be an ironic
take on many peoples' opinion that solutions with fewer features are
worse than those with more.
With best regards
Laslo
Received on Tue Oct 29 2019 - 08:54:35 CET