Worse is better?

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 13.10.2014 um 20:38 schrieb "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>":
> On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 16:28:13 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> It had a killer application called UNIX, just like JavaScript has the
>> browser or Objective-C has the iPhone....
>>
>> I doubt it would ever suceeded on its own.
>
> I probably would, since it was better than
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL
>

But no better than Algol or PL/... variants.

There were other alternatives.