Book of the Civilized Software

[t3knomanser]

I swear, I will do another post about programming in Prolog. I was on vacation, and I fell off the map a bit myself with work being crazy. Now it's not crazy, but I'm still getting back in the groove from vacation.

On the topic of software design and programming, I want to elaborate on this idea I had: We need an Emily Post of software. It's not

Comments

[canissum]

Sounds like a properly written Mac application.

[t3knomanser]

Vista ends up as a few of these. Definitely the Nag, with the constant UAC prompts. It also lands credit as someone who knows better. So often I've tried to use the task manager to kill a process only to be greeted with, "Windows is looking for a solution." The solution is to KILL THE GODDAMN PROCESS.

Emacs is both a Nerd and a Jack of All Trades. Like an eccentric genius, you accept his rudeness because he really is just that good.

A lot of media playing applications are Big Brothers.

I'm not sure why you say CSS is a Jack of All Trades. CSS does only one thing (how well is questionable)- assigns presentation characteristics to XML entities. HTML is more of a culprit for trying to be everything to everyone than CSS is.

civilized software

[garyknott]

Hi, t3k, I am the founder of a company called civilized software (I've been using that
descriptor for 38 years.) the web-site is www.civilized.com, There is an
interesting (I think) page there called "How to Write a Computer Program".
You might enjoy it.

There is also a book on Lisp, and a few other computer-sciencency things
there as well.