From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers Date: 1997/05/27 Message-ID: <97052710041056@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 244257632 Sender: Ada programming language Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU X-Vms-To: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Vms-Cc: CONDIC Date: 1997-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tom Moran writes: >> All (or almost all) the really great leaps forward in computer technology >> have come not from great, expensive, laboratories, engaged in highly >> directed (commercially orientated) research > After thinking of Visicalc and Apple (which acually came after Wang, >Basic 4, et al), I start drawing blanks on who outisde a great expensive >lab developed great leaps forward. Some examples, please? > > Borland Pascal, perhaps? And Unix/C maybe? (Big company, but it wasn't highly directed, commercially oriented research) Maybe the revolutionary new developments have not all come from garage operations, but they do seem to come more from a small group of really smart people who have the time to indulge in purely speculative endeavors instead of working on some well defined objective with a schedule and a budget. MDC Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 561.796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Fax: 561.796.4669 West Palm Beach, FL Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM =============================================================================== "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet." -- Damon Runyon ===============================================================================