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>1990 is calling… and it wants its product development cycle back. In the early 1990s, many developers were using an OS called Unix, with esoteric tools like v
by t1m 13y ago
>1990 is calling… and it wants its product development cycle back.
In the early 1990s, many developers were using an OS called Unix, with esoteric tools like vi, make, sh, and emacs. They wrote software in ancient languages like C, C++, Python, and Objective-C. Their programs communicated over TCP/IP networks using sockets. If you were lucky enough to be working on a military contract, you would be exchanging documents using XML and HTML papa SGML.
Everyone suffered until the major breakthroughs of Javascript and PHP.
- general_failure 13y agoHuh? It was windows basically and iteration was depending on the App author.
- t1m 13y agoIn 1990 microsoftland, most people were still using DOS. Borland had Turbo Pascal and Turbo C products on the market for a number of years - vt100 style text menuing systems were still king in MS-DOS. Windows 3.1 was released in 1992, which was the real starting adoption point for the majority of the market. By that time, the NeXT computer had already been out for four years, the Mac and X Windows were eight. I was actually just pointing out that software development, as a discipline hasn't advanced that much since 1990. The number of KLOCs freely available to use within your code has increased dramatically. The documentation (which was on paper pre-WWW) has improved exponentially. The tools, OSes and languages? Pretty much a plateau there since the mid 80s peak.
- general_failure 13y agoOK, you win. But you completely missed the point of 1990 in that post (hint: he meant windows)