Good enough, freely available, at the right time  # 16 Nov 2008

James Bennett:

“Ask an old-school Smalltalk programmer about C++ and Java sometime. Ask a trained document specialist what she thinks of HTML. Or ask a relational geek about MySQL. All of these are second-rate, partial implementations of vastly more elegant and powerful ideas, but they all took off and left the purists in the dust.”

And, The Rise of Worse is Better, and, I can’t believe it’s not XML!.

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