It’s about rationality on the grounds that the filesystem programmer had lost sight of the necessity of winning; in this case, putting out code that actually works, rather than code that makes the programmer feel good.
It’s painful to write clunky APIs, and pleasant to write elegant APIs… but that doesn’t mean much if your elegant code would just be thrown away on release because everyone’s already using the existing API.
It’s about rationality on the grounds that the filesystem programmer had lost sight of the necessity of winning; in this case, putting out code that actually works, rather than code that makes the programmer feel good.
It’s painful to write clunky APIs, and pleasant to write elegant APIs… but that doesn’t mean much if your elegant code would just be thrown away on release because everyone’s already using the existing API.