What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

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Post by l0stman » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 6:05 PM UTC

What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?
informationweek.com

Re: What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

#2

Post by jannes » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 6:26 PM UTC

Summary: Unix (and especially BSD 4.3)

I hate articles which ask a question in the headline and then answer it only in the last few paragraphs.

Re: What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

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Post by greatquux » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

jannes wrote: post #2

Summary: Unix (and especially BSD 4.3) I hate articles which ask a question in the headline and then answer it only in the last few paragraphs.

Duh! I wouldn't be reading my Lions book if it weren't.

Re: What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

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Post by kruhft » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 6:38 PM UTC

Emacs, because it's still around after 27 years and in everyday use.

Edit: had the number of years wrong, was originally based on the original emacs and not GNU emacs.

Re: What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

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Post by jinushaun » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 6:45 PM UTC

Didn't even have to read the article to guess that the answer is Unix

Re: What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

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Post by wccrawford » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 6:46 PM UTC

The first compiler. Thank God for that thing. If it hadn't existed...

Re: What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

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Post by forgotAgain » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 6:46 PM UTC

"Hello World!"

Re: What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

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Post by bradleyland » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 6:54 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #6

The first compiler. Thank God for that thing. If it hadn't existed...

... it would have eventually.

Re: What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

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Post by wccrawford » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 12:50 AM UTC

bradleyland wrote: post #8

wccrawford wrote: post #6

The first compiler. Thank God for that thing. If it hadn't existed...

... it would have eventually.

And then that would have been the first compiler. Thank God it existed.

Re: What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

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Post by Greedy_Fools » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 4:52 AM UTC

The C compiler, hands down. How much of the other stuff was written in something else ?