Given Richard Gabriel is the author of the long essay "Worse is Better" and the wonderful book Patterns of Software (which you should all read), and given it's out of context, I have to read this as both tongue-in-cheek and heartfelt.
Play "Jeopardy" - what is the question he's answering, and why is he answering it that way?
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Given Richard Gabriel is the author of the long essay "Worse is Better" and the wonderful book Patterns of Software (which you should all read), and given it's out of context, I have to read this as both tongue-in-cheek and heartfelt.
Play "Jeopardy" - what is the question he's answering, and why is he answering it that way?
"Worse is better" is a thinly veiled essay of the contempt he feels for Lisp not flourishing. He really is in an ivory tower.