[SCC_Active_Members] Computer Software - Sci Am

[Grady Booch]

sorry if i'm stepping in to the middle of this thread (i just returned 
from travel). the question seems to be genres of computer software...i 
took a stab at the same classification in the handbook, and came up with 
13 groupings (see the genres of the systems section in the handbook)

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Bob Fraley <fraley at acm.org> 
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02/19/07 02:49 PM

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I think I'd at least add in accounting software and discrete and 
continuous simulation software.  There may be other types of scientific 
software, such as orbital mechanics, and then of course games (thinking of 
the early games that were passed around between the software folks, before 
the advent of games becoming big business.)

Bob


At 11:51 AM 2/19/2007, Dag Spicer wrote:
An interesting TOC from 23 years ago (already!)
 
One could do worse than this TOC to give an overview of computer software…
 
Enjoy!
 
d.
 
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