Understanding Dijkstra's Mozart programming style

Question

I came across this article about programming styles, seen by Edsger Dijsktra. To quickly paraphrase, the main difference is Mozart, when the analogy is made to programming, ful

Answer 1

If Apple adopted "Mozart" programming, there would be no Mac OS X or iTunes today.

If Google adopted "Mozart" programming, there would be no Gmail or Google Reader.

If SO developers adopted "Mozart" programming, there would be no SO today.

If Microsoft adopted "Mozart" programming, there would be no Windows today (well, I think that would be good).

So the answer is simply NO. Nothing is perfect, and nothing is ever meant to be perfect, and that includes software.