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What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

• jannes 15y ago
  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.
  • greatquux 15y ago
    Duh! I wouldn't be reading my Lions book if it weren't.
• kruhft 15y ago
  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.
• jinushaun 15y ago
  Didn't even have to read the article to guess that the answer is Unix
• wccrawford 15y ago
  The first compiler. Thank God for that thing. If it hadn't existed...
  • bradleyland 15y ago
    ... it would have eventually.
    • wccrawford 15y ago
      And then that would have been the first compiler. Thank God it existed.
• forgotAgain 15y ago
  "Hello World!"
• Greedy_Fools 15y ago
  The C compiler, hands down. How much of the other stuff was written in something else ?