Which are your top five computer programs?

cableclasper
2020-01-22T04:39:01Z

In terms of

1. Utility: It is useful!

2. Reliability: It will always work when you need it to!

3. Uniqueness: It gives you the option of doing things that would never have been necessary before it came along.

4. Aesthetic: It satisfies your sense of beauty: It gives you the same kind of feeling a painting or a poem would.

5. Transcendence: It transcends the zeitgeist and is the simplest it can and thus ought to be.

Mine are:

1. Vim

2. mutt

3. The Lucas Arts point and click adventure games

4. A Lisp interpreter

5. grep

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