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robert pike on software (inexistent) evolution

Published on May 1, 2006 in english, programancy and technology.

Today, reading some past mailing lists items, I’ve come to this link of a Rob Pike’s talk about software and how it hasn’t changed much in the last years:

http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf

I think it’s worth to give a good read (also has some references to Linux and Microsoft, so it’s good material for worthless discussions };D) and also to consider it was written in 2000, and things haven’t really changed that much… at least not yet };P

P.S. did you know that Rob Pike works in Google? I didn’t! (but was happy to find so!)

2 Responses to “robert pike on software (inexistent) evolution”

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  1. 1 Stalker
    May 2nd, 2006 at 6:04 am

    Yeah! It’s really worth reading. I also took some quotes that may be interesing. Here they are:

    Ironically, at a time when computing is almost the definition
    of innovation, research in both software and hardware at
    universities and much of industry is becoming insular,
    ossified, and irrelevant.

    “Who needs new operating systems, anyway?” you ask.
    Maybe no one, but then that supports my thesis.

    Linux
    Innovation? New? No, it’s just another copy of the same old
    stuff.

    Measure success by ideas, not just papers and money. Make
    the industry want your work.

    The future is distributed computation, but the language
    community has done very little to address that possibility.

    The community must separate research from market
    capitalization.

    I haven’t thought about this until today, but I’m convinced.

    PD: I’m gonna try Plan 9 next weekend. :)

  2. 2 Chema
    May 4th, 2006 at 2:21 pm

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