On Friday 01 February 2002 02:20 pm, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > > Just goes to show that "worse is better". > > In some ways, maybe, but Tanenbaum's points were perfectly valid. What do you mean "but"? That's the point of "worse is better" (I think Dr. Dobbs Journal had a piece on this): Timely initial delivery is more important to the success of software than its quality. Alec