do...until wisdom needed...

[John Flynn]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message

[ Reasons for Lisp's unpopularity outside AI research and academia ]

> I'm not posing rhetorical questions -- I don't know the
> answers!

I don't either, but here are two recent essays on the topic by Richard
Gabriel. After thinking about it for decades, he still hasn't decided
whether or not "Worse is Better".

He argues both cases with conviction, if not consistency ;-)

Latest thoughts:

Anti-Worse-Is-Better:
http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/WorseIsBetterPositionPaper.pdf

Pro-Worse-Is-Better:
http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/ProWorseIsBetterPosition.pdf

Historical background to the "Worse is Better" controversy:
http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html