Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system...
by mixmastamyk on Sunday August 18, 2019 @12:57AM
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He’s saying it takes at least ten years, not that it stops there.
Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system...
by cwyers on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:36AM
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> But that’s just the first ten years. After that, nobody can think of a single feature that they really need. Is there anything you need that Excel 2000 or Windows 2000 doesn’t already do? With all due respect to my friends on the Office team, I can’t help but feel that there hasn’t been a useful new feature in Office since about 1995. Many of the so-called “features” added since then, like the reviled ex-paperclip and auto-document-mangling, are just annoyances and O’Reilly is doing a nice business selling books telling you how to turn them off.
> So, it takes a long time to write a good program, but when it’s done, it’s done. Oh sure, you can crank out a new version every year or two, trying to get the upgrade revenues, but eventually people will ask: “why fix what ain’t broken?”
Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system...
by mixmastamyk on Sunday August 18, 2019 @05:34PM
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You can always find an example of something in software. He’s also being facetious. A pedantic reading is not very helpful here.
The part I disagree with is the idea that you get to done. Photoshop is a great example. It's over 30 years old. Would Photoshop still hold its market position if it reached maturity 20 years ago and said "we're done?" Ignore UI changes and support for new OSes for a second. Would Photoshop be the market leader without Camera RAW support? High Dynamic Range? GPU acceleration?
Just look at Photoshop's version history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop_version_history
You don't have to agree with every change they've made, but there's a lot of serious features that got released after Year 10 that are need-to-have features. I don't think Photoshop 5.5 was the last Photoshop professionals needed.
Meanwhile, Affinity Photo is only four years old, and while if you had to choose between them Photoshop still has a lot of things Affinity doesn't, I'd pick it over Photoshop 5.5 in a heartbeat.