I’m talking about programs that can’t be improved no matter what. They do exactly what they’re supposed to and will never be changed.
It’ll probably have to be something small, like cd or pwd, but does such a program exist?
I wanted to say VLC because to me, it’s the gold standard of fully working open-source software that just destroys the commercial competitors.
But it’s not perfect only because society changes. New video formats forces VLC and open-source devs to adapt. Bigger video and new tech specs require VLC to update. If it wasn’t for all those external needs, VLC would be perfect.
Did I also mentioned the many times rich companies wanted to buy VLC and they laughed?
Idk if it’s perfect but I really like the “literate programming” version of `
This is not the original, but here is one version of it : https://github.com/zyedidia/Literate/blob/master/examples/wc.lit
A program that just prints “Hello World” to the screen and quits.
mcmaster.com is pretty close…
Does IRC count ?
Didn’t IRC have major insecurity issues?
I can’t remember why IRC died.
Winamp! It probably had some bugs or security issues but functional it was perfect imo.
There was a moment in time where maybe it was qmail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail
Ten years after the launch of qmail 1.0, and at a time when more than a million of the Internet’s SMTP servers ran either qmail or netqmail, only four known bugs had been found in the qmail 1.0 releases, and no security issues.
More on how it was accomplished:
https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/17/some-thoughts-on-security-after-ten-years-of-qmail-1-0/
Honestly, it all starts going to shite after “hello world.”
Shouldn’t it be “Hello world.”?
No. “Hello, world!” or you’re doing it wrong.
What does perfect hello world even mean? It can be realized in many ways and none is the best way.
Computers can’t even greet you in the real world. Its like some kind of sick joke.
“Dance, clanker! Dance!”
Hahahahah
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TeX. Best documented source, and last bug found was 12 years ago.
The 2021 release of Tex included several bug-fixes, so not quite 12 years:
https://tug.org/texmfbug/tuneup21bugs.html
See also the following list of potential bugs, that may be included in the planned 2029 release of Tex:
https://tug.org/texmfbug/newbug.html
That said, Tex is still an impressive piece of software
Thanks for the update, I somehow missed that.
To be honest, they didn’t make it easy to find
7zip?
7zip has had few CVEs and vulnerabilities
wget.
It’s on Github and has several PRs.
It was fault tolerant but I wouldn’t say it was perfect. There were plenty of “known issues”, and the fix in production was basically, “don’t do that”.
You may be interested by this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification.
Prominent examples of verified software systems include the CompCert verified C compiler and the seL4 high-assurance operating system kernel.
Automotive engine control computers.
They just work, for decades and millions of miles.
Of course: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
Ha. I still have an open PR on that.
Perfect code right here:
