I love C++. It's the ultimate computer virus. Sometimes, Worse Is Better, New Jersey beats out MIT, and the dirt path always wins. The ghosts of these decisions still affect every operating system we use today! In this video, I dig into Richard Gabriel's 35-year-old essay "Worse Is Better", why "New Jersey" thinking beats every competitor, and how Bjarne Stroustrup's early decisions made C++ win while cleaner designs faded. --- Timestamps: 00:00 The Dirt Path 01:00 A Third-Rate Computer Scientist 03:17 MIT vs New Jersey 05:49 The 100% Correctness Deathtrap 08:24 C++, the Ultimate Virus --- Go read Richard Gabriel's collection of poems and essays! https://dreamsongs.com/ --- Check out my X / Twitter account for cool Computer Science stuff! https://x.com/lauriewired — mirrored from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7fEsbksKRE