Worse is better

🫧 Open on Bubbles The most popular technology may not be the best. In 1989 Richard P. Gabriel coined the term Worse is Better , a clearly humorous take on certain tendencies in software development and design as he saw them. I first encountered the term in his book Patterns of Software , and I'm basing the following on that. In essence, another way to state the epigram is that perfection is the enemy of the good. Gabriel's context was the juxtaposition of Lisp versus C++ . Gabriel had founded Lucid, a compa