Greatest Software "ever" ... NOT!
InfoWeek has the top 12 software ever made [as of August 2006]. Along with top 5 runner up.
Only time will tell but I have a feeling that we're just getting started. There are too many unresolved problems in computer science [usability, programmability, traceability, debuggability, maintainability] to name top software yet.
Maybe the top 17 software with the state of tools as of 2006. Once we solve a lot of the basic software problems, then we can move on to creating great software. I think that we're still working out the kinks of the language of mathematics before we can get to Newtonian physics let alone Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
I do love how they did explain the start of open source movement long before the internet: via magnetic tape exchange. Which is how I got to know C programming at my college by getting a C compiler "free" from one of the tape exchanges [back when Pascal and BASIC were the main teaching languages at least at my college].
However, I'm a bit disappointed that Java up ended Smalltalk but that's OK. Xerox blew it and never did recover. And one moves on...
Copyright 2006, DannyHSDad, All Rights Reserved.
Only time will tell but I have a feeling that we're just getting started. There are too many unresolved problems in computer science [usability, programmability, traceability, debuggability, maintainability] to name top software yet.
Maybe the top 17 software with the state of tools as of 2006. Once we solve a lot of the basic software problems, then we can move on to creating great software. I think that we're still working out the kinks of the language of mathematics before we can get to Newtonian physics let alone Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
I do love how they did explain the start of open source movement long before the internet: via magnetic tape exchange. Which is how I got to know C programming at my college by getting a C compiler "free" from one of the tape exchanges [back when Pascal and BASIC were the main teaching languages at least at my college].
However, I'm a bit disappointed that Java up ended Smalltalk but that's OK. Xerox blew it and never did recover. And one moves on...
Copyright 2006, DannyHSDad, All Rights Reserved.
posted by DannyHSDad at
9:57 AM
