/prog/ - worse is better list:please add

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 9:47

unix over multics
linux over minix, bsd, plan9, beos
x86 over risc
dc over a
java over smalltalk

http and c++ are good examples, but I don't know what the alternatives were

worse is better forces (evolutionary pressures/economic constraints that lead to local maximums because they are better in the short term):
compatibility
portability
time to market
familiarity (in UI and programming languages)

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 9:50

tcp over ip

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 9:51

linux over minix, bsd, plan9, beos
Minix, BSD, Plan9 and BeOS are as worse-is-betterish as Linux if not more.

x86 over risc
x86 is slightly worse-is-betterish. RISC is actually much more worse-is-betterish.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 9:53

JavaScript over Scheme.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 9:53

Shitposting over quality.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 11:23

Rob Pike over Uriel.

Name: FUCK YOU FREEDOM HATING NAZIS 2012-10-11 11:27

temporary safety over freedom

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 11:44

>>7
The children will not be safe until every computer's contents can be inspected by the proper authorities at any time. Cryptography kills!

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 11:48

/prog/ over /jp/

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 11:58

>>8
I fucking hate you to the point of strangling you with your own guts. Die in a fire.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 12:05

/prog/ - Sussman Culture

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 12:26

C is more ``worse is better'' than C++. All the die hard UNIX niggers hate C++ because it goes against their worse culture.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 16:53

>unix over multics
Are you a 70-year old AT&T retiree? No? Then you don't know what the fuck you're talking about,

>linux over minix, bsd, plan9, beos
Hurr, toy operating systems are better than Linux. So edgyXD. FreeBSD on the desktop is a joke. Even the lead developer of PC-BSD is a Windows user.

>x86 over risc
RISC was designed to be written by humans. x86 was designed to be written by compilers. There's no reason for humans to write ASM anymore except to waste time. Even kernels are written in C.

>java over smalltalk
Smalltalk is shit. Steve Jobs wanted to write NeXT in Smalltalk just because Alan Kay gushed about it (Jobs didn't know shit about programming). After realizing the limitations they licensed Objective-C instead. Nothing useful has ever been written in Smalltalk.

>http and c++ are good examples, but I don't know what the alternatives were
http: s-expressions
c++: c

Now fuck off back to cat-v.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-11 18:48

>>13
x86 was designed to be written by compilers.
Not true. x86 was designed to be written by embedded programmers for single-use 16-bit applications, like the PIC. Compilers and assembler programmers both prefer regular registers and addressing modes. x86 is a "modified accumulator" architecture. This means it has been modified by accumulating every bad design decision since the 70's.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 4:17

'World Wide Web',HTML,PowerPoint,PDF,Document-databases over HyperCard

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 4:27

PHP > Rails

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 5:13

>>13
>Even the lead developer of PC-BSD is a Windows user.
you trollin me brah

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 6:09

Even Leah is a Mac User.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 6:12

Lisp over Haskell

Name: Let us do this for real! 2012-10-12 8:13

1) Mac > windows > *nix
a)Mimix > Linux > Plan9 > FreeBSD > OpenBSD
2) ARM > SPARC > PowerPC > MIPS > ... > x86 > x86-64 > IA-32
3) bc
4) What in transistors name...?
5) HTTP > IMAP > XMMP > SSH > SMTP > NNTP > IRC > LDAP > Gopher
6) worse is better > structured analysis and Design
7) short term goals > long term goals
8) compatible > essential
9) portable
10) marketable > vital
11) familiarity > regular expressions > aptitude

1935 CE called.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 8:24

HIIT over steady exercise.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 9:46

UFO > PoFV > IN > PCB > TD

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 10:24

HTH > HAND > HMA > GTFO > IHBT

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 11:10

Cirno > Satori > Reimu > Remi > Marisa > Sakuya > Flan

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 11:30

>>24
Esther > Satori > Reimu > Remi > Marisa > Sakuya > Flan

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 13:19

dey shuld make da list in lisp



(define da-list '((unix multics) (linux minix bsd plan9 beos) (x86 risc) (dc a) (java smalltalk)))

*swings around on a clothesline like a naked gallery programmer*

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 13:23

>>25
Who the fuck is Esther, Abelson-kun?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 13:24

>>22
IN is the most fun game
TD has great music but is a shit game
PCB has Jewkari, so it must be good
PoFV has Komachi, so it must be good (oh and it made PCB music good)
UFO is shit, fuck you fagstorm

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 14:12

Leah Culver over Richard Stallman

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-12 17:12

niggers over whites

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-13 15:47

>>13
RISC was designed to be written by humans. x86 was designed to be written by compilers.
Are you sure you don't have that the wrong way round.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-14 19:58

Masturbation > Sex

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-14 20:04

Dubs > Trips

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-14 23:07

>>31
He means assemblers. Cue war over whether or not assembler is the same as machine language. Cue war over assembler vs. assembly.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-15 3:01

More object pascal and less C++.

Name: HASKELLER 2012-10-15 4:31

>>1
vagina over anus

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-15 5:11

Touhou over Seihou

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-15 12:18

>>37
fuck off hipster shit

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-15 12:28

gc over manual memory management

GC is shit.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-15 12:31

>>37
Seihou is pretty shitty.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-15 12:33

>>39
We've already had this discussion. No, it isn't necessarily.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-16 11:11

/prog/ over Reddit.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-16 11:31

Dynamic Typing over Static Typing
GC over static reachability analysis.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-16 11:34

voice recognition over typing

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-16 12:03

>>43
fuck off and die, vroom vroom worse-is-better faggot

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-16 12:10

>>43
premature optimization over readability

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-16 12:15

>>43
Native binaries over bytecode JIT compilation

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-16 12:17

>>47
fuck off JIT fagstorm

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-16 12:21

>>48
Profiling and manual hints over JIT compilation

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-16 13:47

>>49
JIT compilation over native binaries.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-17 10:12

>>50
Enjoy your under-performing hard-to-audit shit.

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