The (superlow)quality of software (was Re: Python Popularity: Questions and Comments)

[Alex Martelli]

"Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message
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> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:36:13AM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > You have read Richard Gabriel's "Worse is Better" paper, haven't you?
>
>    Certainly. First time I read it many years ago, when I've just
connected
> to the Net, my English was pretty bad at that time. Later I reread it few
> times to understand it better. The ideas are arguable, of course, but
> deniable. :)

Gabriel himself has done an excellent job of denying (and reaffirming,
and redenying, and ...:-) those ideas.  The only thing they aren't, is
*ignorable* -0- you do have to wrestle with them, if you agree that
"the unexamined life is not worth living" (Socrates).


Alex