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Rob Pike wrote a good analysis of the situation in 2000: "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" (http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/ http://doc.cat-v.or
by silentbicycle 17y ago
Rob Pike wrote a good analysis of the situation in 2000: "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" (http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/ http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/).
- tnovelli 17y agoThanks for depressing me ;-) -- by and large we're in the same sorry situation 9 years later, aren't we?
- silentbicycle 17y agoThe mainstream adoption of the web has carried some breakthroughs with it, but it's also held others back (witness the problems caused by people still using IE6). It's nothing new, though - a lot of seemingly novel ideas getting attention now date back to the 70s. The software industry has always been about standing on the toes of giants.