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		jes5199 on Oct 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991) what's the old saw about "unix design prioritizes simplicity over correctness, and on modern hardware simplicity is also no longer considered necessary"

marcosdumay on Oct 7, 2024 [–]

There's a really important detail in that simplicity tends to lead to correctness.

Anyway, worse is better is about simplicity of implementation versus conceptual simplicity. By principle, that's a much harder choice.

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