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Long-term Approach to Software

Posted in Free Software by Niklas Vainio on the January 17th, 2005. Tags: , , , , , ,

In his essay Software That Lasts 200 Years, Dan Bricklin calls for an approach to software that takes into account long-term consequences. Bricklin compares software production to building projects - houses, bridges, roads - that are planned and built to last for a very long time. By contrast, “software has historically been built assuming that it will be replaced in the near future (remember the Y2K problem)”.

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