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It's not my name: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

And I don't feel one bit sorry about it. I guess I could call it Stanford(/MIT) way, but MIT is nicer, juicer target.

Also asm.js is the Worse is Better compared to PNaCl. It's simpler, it's a 'hack' of JS compiler, it's not as fast as native performance of PNaCl. But it epitome of the said approach.

C is also Worse is Better approach compared to Lisp and it had some of amazing people, work on it.



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