A maxim used to explain such things as

• the success of UNIX and C

• the failure of LisP.

(Here failure and success mean market penetration or mindshare.)

Most often associated with Jamie Zawinski, but he got it from Richard P Gabriel.

Victor Lombardi points to Clay Shirky piece in praise of evolvable systems - Iterat Ive is good

one approach toward Disruptive Innovation?

This doesn't mean that everything that seems worse is actually better, of course! [Perl Sucks], and so does [YoMama].

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