I do not agree. "Worse is better" emphasizes on simplicity - and as example, the emphasis on separation of concerns by building components that do one thing and do it well. It's actually easier to design monolithic systems, than it is to build independent components that are interconnected. Unix itself suffered because at places it made compromises to its philosophy - it's a good thing that Plan9 exists, with some of the concepts ending in Unix anyway (e.g. the procfs comes from Plan9). And again, simplicity is not the same thing as easiness.
> Haskell is clearly a superior language to Java in many respects, writing code properly in Haskell is much harder than doing so in Java
I do not agree on your assessment. Haskell is harder to write because ALL the concepts involved are extremely unfamiliar to everybody. Java is learned in school. Java is everywhere. Developers are exposed to Java or Java-like languages.
OOP and class-based design, including all the design patterns in the gang of four, seem easy to you or to most people, because we've been exposed to them ever since we started to learn programming.
Haskell is also great, but it is not clearly superior to Java. That's another point I disagree on, the jury is still out on that one - as language choice is important, but it's less important than everything else combined (libraries, tools, ecosystem and so on).
> Haskell is clearly a superior language to Java in many respects, writing code properly in Haskell is much harder than doing so in Java
I do not agree on your assessment. Haskell is harder to write because ALL the concepts involved are extremely unfamiliar to everybody. Java is learned in school. Java is everywhere. Developers are exposed to Java or Java-like languages.
OOP and class-based design, including all the design patterns in the gang of four, seem easy to you or to most people, because we've been exposed to them ever since we started to learn programming.
Haskell is also great, but it is not clearly superior to Java. That's another point I disagree on, the jury is still out on that one - as language choice is important, but it's less important than everything else combined (libraries, tools, ecosystem and so on).