Grady Booch (of Booch methodology)
wants to preserve classic software (link to
Tim O'Reilly's blog).
I fully support the initiative.
Here's my list of top ten classic software products.
- Unix -- I have the original system 7 source code, with commentary written by well known experts on programming. It is a pure joy to read. How can a computer program that is about 5000 lines long, can embed so many ideas and tricks?!
- TeX -- One of the greatest pieces of software ever written
- NeXTStep -- The object oriented operating system that died; portable distributed objects, object oriented file system, OO-IPC (Inter-process communication) etc., I say bring it back!
- NFS --The network file system
- The Netscape Browser
- The original AOL Instant Messenger
- Microsoft Excel
- Visual Basic 3.0
- SQL -- Yes, the query language for relational databases.
The Neighborhood of Malleswaram
The old Bangalore neighborhood of Malleswaram hosts traditional people, spiritual people, and interesting people. A new section on the home-turf of Kamats.
