wise words

I stumbled across some wise words that resonate with me at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs quoted from Eric S. Raymond:

"The most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough."

He was talking about Bell Labs' attempt to replace Unix with a better unix-like OS. But his words ring just as true for SQL and a host of other computing languages. Received on Thu May 18 2006 - 14:24:49 CDT