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lbruder | 3 years ago

Worse is better. C and Unix were faster to implement new stuff as they were only 'good enough'. Lisp machines wanted to do everything 'right', right from the start, and were slower to implement new features. Unix was already winning by then...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

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pjmlp|3 years ago

And now the industry is going after C Machines, as the ultimate solution to fix C memory corruption issues, the irony.

westoncb|3 years ago

Irony is the "worse is better" guy was a lisp fanatic IIRC :)