|
![](/i/fill.gif) |
On 3-4-2009 18:40, Darren New wrote:
> Please, this is not a troll. It's a serious question that isn't meant to
> imply the answer is "no."
'No' would be a strange answer to your question anyway.
> What are some other cool open-source projects that didn't take their
> design from existing products? I.e., ones where the open source
> software was the first thing to do things that way?
POV and Blender?
> The ones I can think of offhand are Ruby, Python, CouchDB, maybe VFS
> file system, Singularity (if you count that as open source)... I think
> there was another cool large-scale database system I'm forgetting, and
> probably a PL or two...
>
> I don't count the Linux kernel, GNOME or KDE, Emacs, GCC, MySQL, Hadoop,
> etc., because all these things look and act (from the outside)
> significantly like that which they're based on. While some of the stuff
> the "cloud" folks are doing is very cool, I don't think it counts as
> Open Source.
>
> Any other innovative languages, databases, etc? Something that one could
> learn cool new ideas from by just reading the documentation (assuming
> documentation exists ;-)?
Check out the works of Don Knuth. E.g. TeX and Metafont are fully
documented and source is available as books.
Post a reply to this message
|
![](/i/fill.gif) |