Husker++. I really like the "world as an invarient OS". One additional thought came to mind as I read that.

When "bricks" were made by hand, whether they were the individual blocks in the pyramids 4500 years ago, or those that went into the Great Wall of China. Construction took a very long time.

Modern bricks are machine made. Construction is much quicker.

The software industry is still very young. We still haven't worked out how to make our bricks by machine.

The electronics industry is just a few years older, but is considerably further along the evolutionary path. From hand blow valves; through individually soldered transistors; discrete ICs; large scale, then very large scale integration.

  1. Assembler / C ~= transitors
  2. C++ / Java / Smalltalk ~= discrete ICs
  3. (Elements of) Perl SQL (others?) ~= LSI
  4. ??? => VLSI

Still a ways to go yet.

Unfortunately, we are still making the tools we use to build our programs, by hand. We need to get over the hump to the point where we can use tools to build our tools.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
"Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algoritm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon

In reply to Re^2: (OT): 200-year software by BrowserUk
in thread (OT): 200-year software by dragonchild

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