Friday, August 18, 2006

{Best, Worst}. Software. Ever.

Information Week has this article up with a list of "Greatest Software Ever Written." I won't give away the winner of the number one slot, but it starts with "Berkeley" and ends with "4.3".

On the other end of the spectrum, today's Washington Post has this article (registration or workaround required) about the FBI's Virtual Case File system, one of the larger software-development screw ups in history. Why? According to this September 2005 article in IEEE Spectrum, because they wouldn't get the requirements right, that's why.

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