Ibeam2000 wrote:
> I came across this bit of programming philosophy recently and, to my
> surprise, see that I have been using the "Worse is better" philosophy
> as long as I can remember. Although the article does not explicitly
> mention APL, the principles hold just the same. How does this fit
> with some of the rapid prototyping methodologies?
>
> The original article is in www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
>
>
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a nice article -- thank you for posting it
I always liked the "good enough is perfect" maxim promulgated by the
early Unicists
the process of successive approximations being the basis of almost all
numerical routines, it has always surprised me that adopting the same
approach to system development should be greeted by near-hysteria in
some quarters
I'm not sure the principle is universally applicable, though -- you
wouldn't want to build a bridge that way (or, leastways, you wouldn't
want to use a bridge that you knew had been built that way, would you?)
/phil
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