Walk to the CS section of any big university library and scan the shelves for the purple and gray "LNCS" books (Lecture Notes in Computer Science.) then weep in sorrow.

Not only is worse better, but industry seems to be at odds with good design.

The examples are simply too numerous and any examples would only be a poor and narrow representative, skewed to my tastes and my ignorance.

All I know is that we deserve better than this; a combination of MIPS, Smalltalk, Lisp, and Amoeba as mainstream platforms would have been nice.