What is the best computer program ever made?

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Discuss.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think this COULD be it. It's perfect for us lazy types.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

micrologic

― I R fatnick, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The answer is vi.

― Josh, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no what have I done.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

LOGO, or the original Star Wars arcade game.

― JM, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I couldn't do my job without QuarkXPress.

― Sean, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I LIKE WINAMP

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sim-anything.

― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Notepad

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Eek. vi? Stand back! Unexploded holy war, Batman!

Impulse Tracker or Scream Tracker; IT - as used on actual proper released cds by Bogdan R, Lassi N, Lackluster, etc - is better, but it is based on Scream Tracker 3, so maybe that means ST3 should take the prize. Same problem with original Jet Set Willy vs non-Matt-Smith JSWII. Also, POVray and Fractint are neat too, and at least I think POV might still be alive (none of the others are). And there was a neat Win3.1 utility called Lava Lamp which made really pretty and really un-lavalampish patterns.

K-blimey, all except JSW freeware, PD or shareware, and JSW now freely and I believe legally - certainly no protest from MS, but then IIRC his publishers screwed him over royal(ti)ly anyway - available on the internet! Next I'll be growing a beard, wearing socks and sandals, and getting tiresomely pedantic and sanctimonious about the GPL. Haylp!

― Rebecca, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

10 PRINT "HI MY NAME IS TOM"
20 GOTO 10

RUN

― Tom, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"RUN" being what you do once you've typed this in to the Radio Shack floor models.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://infotreks.com/dm95_1.jpg

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Global Thermonuclear War.

― Alan T (at home), Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate St. Claire

― Graham, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

return to zork.

― ethan, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

emacs.

― hamish, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Google

― K-reg, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*lightbulb* I love screen.

― Rebecca, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ultima

― bnw, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BBEdit

― Ed, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.mykeweb.co.uk/3dmm/images/Grrrrrr.gif

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

LUSENET

― RickyT, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RULE OF THREE for 3D Monster Maze!

― Tom, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oneof the best games I've ever played is Planecape:Torment. Right now at this moment, I'd say that the greatest piece of software ever written is the Java Virtual Machine. (Yes, a cheat, but still...)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

JVM can bite me. Stack based systems = the dumbest idea ever. Java based SSH from Mindwave is one of the coolest programs ever, followed by some random graphics program I had for the mac back in the day that wanted to be photoshop but couldn't but had the coolest filter design system ever.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

are you some sort of stackist? and if you're dissing PostScript you have a big FITE on your hands. grrr

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

postscript = too hard to read, too useless to rite, and better served by being either totally unintelligble like java bytecode.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Right clover, outside NOW!

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pop pop pop

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Documents should be written in LaTeX. Duh.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

LaTeX is for wimps. Real men use plain TeX.

― RickyT, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lucasarts adventures. Transport Tycoon. And Doom.

― Bill, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nethack, of course.

― Dan I., Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

vi is classic but vim is even better (and often aliased to vi), grep is a godsend as if diff. UT, Quake 2 for Mac, Adventure, resedit, VC++ v6, MAPLE V, make and nothing beats the fun that is tcpdump, watch what pornsites your coworkers are going to.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

VC++ v6's IDE is great but the compiler and STL implementation suck arse. And the new version still won't support template partial specialisation and member fuinctions properly.

― RickyT, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree the compiler could be tighter but I've become quite friendly with the STL, though they really should fix the
#pragma warning(disable:4786)
requirement for maps/sets. The only other bug isnt VC specific and that is the issue of the strtok using static variables which really can be a pain in the ass in multithreaded programs. I like the little function defs that pop up when it realizes what fucntion/member your calling which wasnt around in the 5th release. Now MFC on the other hand can die a painful death at the hands of Boreland but thats a different matter as real programmers dont concern themselves with petty concerns like GUIs. Real Programmer guide

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

alan, you don't want to play that. how about a nice game of chess.

can't try and say it's the best, but the program that has brought me the most pleasure is worms. cluster bomb, three seconds, minimum bounce. you are *not* safe behind that protrusion! what, no! NO! (bang, b-bang plink plink, beebeebeebeebee boom! gloish) bastard mines!

― another james, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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