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The Rise of Worse Is Better

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The New Jersey guy said that the Unix solution was right because the design philosophy of Unix was simplicity and that the right thing was too complex.

The MIT guy pointed out that the implementation was simple but the interface to the functionality was complex.

New Jersey guy said that the right tradeoff has been selected in Unix -- namely, implementation simplicity was more important than interface simplicity.

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