Do Right the Wrong Way

“Worse is Better” by Richard Gabriel - a sort of confusing treatise on the differences between the “worse is better” approach to writing code and the Stanford MIT model. Basically trying to get everything right first time is not as good as just getting something to work and then expanding it from there.

“The Cathedral and the Bazaar” by Eric Raymond - an interesting article about how open source programming works.

13 December 2005 | networks | Comments