Most engineered program(s)

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Without any nitty gritty stuff & googling, what do you guys think is/are the most (excellent usage) engineered software? Am using Photoshop CS5 right now, and I'm thinking to myself this is just amazing, there is just so much to learn, and yet there are certain personnel who dived behind the scenes to produce this majestic piece of software.

Others I can straight away think of my head are the Microsoft Office Suite, AutoCAD, the whole Adobe Suite and Fruity Loops.
 
If you know how to use autocad you can design anything. I really believe autocad is the most engineered program ever made.
 
I would say MATLAB and Solidworks. MATLAB is an awesome piece of engineering software. Very powerful if you know how to program with it. Solidworks is easy to CAD with and understand. I am using it to design a quadcopter and use MATLAB to help me design the controller to make it autonomous once I have built it.
 
Matlab is a really powerful tool, but I wouldn't say from a software engineering prospective it is a master piece. Crashes rather easily and is extremely slow when dynamic memory allocation is needed, but for mathematical simulations it is just amazing! I haven't worked with AutoCad since AutoCad 2000, which was terrible in my opinion. Most engineered thing that works that comes to mind is the Microsoft Kinect.
 
"Whole Adobe Suite"...no

I've always like MS Excel because it is so versatile and easy. The rest of the Office suite is meh, but Excel is pure AWESOME for me.
 
The Zune client. It's freaking amazing. Tad slow sometimes, but besides that it is the epitome of human creation.

Also *shameless plug - cough*, MetroTwit.

EDIT: Have you guys ever stopped to think how much work has gone into OS's? I have been using PC's all my life, and occasionally I will still get some or other message that I have never seen before. It blows my mind how much detail and work goes into such big products.
 
roguemat said:
The Zune client. It's freaking amazing. Tad slow sometimes, but besides that it is the epitome of human creation.

Also *shameless plug - cough*, MetroTwit.

EDIT: Have you guys ever stopped to think how much work has gone into OS's? I have been using PC's all my life, and occasionally I will still get some or other message that I have never seen before. It blows my mind how much detail and work goes into such big products.
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Yep, the OS itself, especially Windows 7. So much detail in it, although not a 'program' as such...
Hamster said:
"Whole Adobe Suite"...no

I've always like MS Excel because it is so versatile and easy. The rest of the Office suite is meh, but Excel is pure AWESOME for me.
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OK, half of it.
 
Stuff ACAD, what about Blender, Wait.... Linux.

Nothing is more engineered than an Operating system, and I think *nix is the apex of human software engineering.

And if you ask what can you do with blender...

Simple, how about all of this:

[video=youtube;QbzE8jOO7_0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzE8jOO7_0[/video]
 
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Sorry I cannot agree with Blender. It may be very powerful, and free, but it has one of the most unintuitive UI's of any program. I have used all the major packages, and Blender does not compare to the big names. For a free product it is good though.
 
Any program that can be used to communicate with hardware (electronic) is something that still amazes me.
Like universal remotes.
 
Fuma said:
Any program that can be used to communicate with hardware (electronic) is something that still amazes me.
Like universal remotes.
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Yeah the masive amount of HW a single universal remote can support astonishes me sometimes, most people will hook it up to the tv and DSTV and that will be it but seeing something like that incorporated in home automation is just insane.

As far as programs go, photoshop is pretty epic.... But let not forget the work put into an IDE like Visual Studio:wtf:
 
+1 to Visual Studio. I have used a lot of different IDE's in my life, and VS is still the best.
Plus its free (the express versions).
 
I would also put Visual Studio up there with the best. I think to be perfectly honest, SAP and Oracle management suites are some amazing feats of engineering. The amount of feedback SAP gives and the diversity Oracle allows. Just mind-boggling!
 
I love VS (and Expression Blend)

In terms of a really well engineered application for the masses, consider Guarage Band. It is a joy (and im not a Mac user)
 
DigiBanks99 said:
I would also put Visual Studio up there with the best. I think to be perfectly honest, SAP and Oracle management suites are some amazing feats of engineering. The amount of feedback SAP gives and the diversity Oracle allows. Just mind-boggling!
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Dont mention SAP, as an Ex-SAP Architect I know I can get way more income doing implementations than what I am getting now but its not worth it.

There is a reason they get paid so much, its called Danger Pay and takes years off your life :)
 
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