what's the best developed software program ever created?

[darkxshade]

On and Off

 

[TheHunley]

Diablo 2 + LoD... You have to keep coming back to it.

 

[Howard]

Whatever it is, it's sure as hell not ANSYS

 

[DrPizza]

Mathematica

 

[thetxstang]

RealPlayer.

 

[WildHorse]

VisiCalc, according to what I've read, is what really made the PC industry take off, once upon a time...

 

[Platypus]

vi

 

[Hyperblaze]

I'd say linux.

Gives me control over everything I want to do. What more could I possibly ask?

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Platypus
vi

i dare you to try doing software development efficently with vi

I can't. Had to switch to Quanta. Also use Zend Studio.

 

[lyssword]

counterstrike:source, oblivion, age of empires2 conquerors

 

[Kirby]

foobar!

 

[6000SUX]

Nethack

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: MrPickins
Dr. Sbaitso

I loved screwing around with that speech engine when I was kid. I would laugh for hours just talking to it.

That makes me sound weird. Hey, I was only a kid!

And I would have to say the most important software developed would have to be DOS.

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: Platypus
vi

What about vim?

 

[fire400]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
Windows XP made lots of money and is hugely popular...

For my part I'll go with Age of Emnpires II: Age of Kings, that has to be the single most balanced game ever developed, it seems like every other game nowadays they have so many stupid limits on what you can build and they always release patches to nerf the newest popular strategies, but AOK never needed patching and yet the strategies kept changing all the time since there really was no single strategy that had the upper hand.

Starcraft Broodwar

It's embarassing to attack without medics when you're playing Terran if you're going for an effective infantry assault, unless you have such huge numbers it would make little or no difference.
Anyway, they changed the spawning pool for the Zergs to 200 over 150 minerals. I thought that was stupid. Zergs were supposed to be about speed at any point in the game.

 

[randumb]

emacs

 

[iamaelephant]

Big Rigs.

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[kranky]

Originally posted by: scott
VisiCalc, according to what I've read, is what really made the PC industry take off, once upon a time...

That's my choice as well. There was no software before that which enabled huge productivity gains. Tons of PCs were sold for no other reason than to run VisiCalc.

 

[zainali]

dreamscene (vista ultimate)

 

[3NF]

Myst

 

[kstu]

fusetalk

 

[BrownTown]

Microsoft Excel is a pretty nice program and is VERY useful for all kinds of buisness stuff. I know my dad and alot of hte people where he works, they have the most insane spreadsheets ever, like 15 tabs interlinked spreadsheets with 50 columns and thousands of rows, they are pretty absurd. And they aint just lists of numbers and cr@p like that, some of them are solving engineering equations for nuclear reactors (dad is a nuclear engineer ftw ).

 

[fire400]

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: oboeguy
Hello, world.

:thumbsup:

It's been all downhill from since.

 

[Mxylplyx]

Originally posted by: Coolone
Notepad

Seconded. Never let me down.