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Basic research is research done without an obvious application. In the same way, development can be done without an obvious application. All those mathematician
by inigyou 3mo ago
Basic research is research done without an obvious application. In the same way, development can be done without an obvious application. All those mathematicians studying prime numbers in the 1600s-1800s came in useful later when we invented good cryptography.
- bumby 3mo agoRight. As you said, sqlite was developed to fill a specific need, therefore it’s applied research and not basic research. (I wouldn’t even consider it research, but more development, but I’m trying to be generous to the discussion)