Unpopular opinion but Microsoft Excel. It's a powerhouse of features.
And antifeatures. Some people do not work with dates.
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#12Aegis/Domain OS. I would love to work again with such an OS.
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#13Unpopular opinion but Microsoft Excel. It's a powerhouse of features.
What definition of elegant are you using?
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#14Are unix pipes a software?
If so, then that.
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#15Redis. The interface is quickly obvious using telnet (which makes all clients pretty obvious). The documentation is both succinct and complete. All operations are listed with their big-O notation.
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#16Lua
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#17PostgreSQL
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#18The Elm architecture. I've only used it in F# with Fable but it's made UI programming fun again. It's robust and simple.
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#19Unpopular opinion but Microsoft Excel. It's a powerhouse of features.
So elegant that genes have had to be renamed to stop Excel mutilating them.
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#20Linear is nice. https://linear.app