[paganel]

Sites like this one (and especially the initial spirit behind them) are the result of programmers and programmer-like minds (“hackers”, if you will) just “winging” it and seeing what will happen if they’ll build them. The reddit’s founders’ decision to initially write it in Lisp or even Paul Graham’s decision to write this website in Arc is almost quintessentially “winging it”, no sane person should have picked the wingy Lisp or Lisp-like Arc over a non-wingy and easily “architecturable” platform like Struts (we’re talking about the years 2005-2006). The same goes for Zuckerberg using PHP to write Facebook as PHP is the most winging-like programming language ever.

What I’m trying to say it’s that winging it is good, it’s good to get lost in a bazaar, we don’t all need cathedrals.