Great Software

Phil Windley makes his own amendments to a list of great software.

As Phil believes, I also have to include Smalltalk on the list. I don't agree with the original author's rationale re: Java and some others on that list.

Other systems I'd consider for my top ten...

• Lisp (esp. Lisp 1.5, Common Lisp, and Scheme)
• Smalltalk
• Erlang
• Hypercard
• Emacs (in various incarnations)
• The Xerox Alto (incl. BitBlt, Ethernet, laser printing, WYSIWYG, etc.)
• Englebart's Augment, nee NLS
• Unix
• The Web
• The Orbit compiler for Scheme