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Niklaus Wirth advocates for lean software development. Henrik Karlsson promotes thoughtful prioritization. Calvin Wankhede built a fully offline smart home. Topics include Wirth's Law, causes of 'fat software', disciplined methodologies, essentials for streamlining software, and sponsors Pocket Base and Vanna.ai.
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- Nicholas Wirth's ideas on lean software development still hold true, emphasizing the importance of disciplined methodologies and a return to the essentials to streamline software.
- Pocket Base provides an all-in-one back-end solution with an embedded SQLite database, real-time subscriptions, file and user management, an admin dashboard UI, and a restful API, while Vanna.ai offers a Python rag framework for accurate text-to-SQL generation with flexibility for various front-end options.
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The Legacy of Nicholas Wirth
Nicholas Wirth, the creator of Pascal, passed away, but his ideas and contributions to computer science are still relevant today. Wirth's Law, which states that software is getting slower at a faster rate than hardware is becoming faster, continues to hold true. In a paper written in 1995, Wirth also discusses the causes of 'fat software', such as having too many features and not enough time. He emphasizes the importance of disciplined methodologies and a return to the essentials to streamline software.
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