Friday, May 02, 2014

The Great Works of Software

Paul Ford wrote in The Message about The Great Works of Software. "Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply influential—that changed the nature of the code that followed?"

He picked five: MS Office, Photoshop, Pac-Man, Unix and Emacs. Any such list is kind of arbitrary and only useful if its explanations are entertaining which I think these are.

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