Yo programé el Bloc de Notas
“… y yo programé el Bloc de Notas” Ésta es una de las frases que más he utilizado cuando algún ser humano de sexo femenino me preguntaba, cubata en mano: “¿Informático?… ¿Y tú que haces exactamente?” cuando, después de 5 minutos intentando impresionarla con nuestra ensalada de siglas habitual -ERP, IDE, SQL…-, veías que te empezaba a mirar con ojos bovinos. “¡Oh! ¿El Bloc de Notas?… ¿En serio?“. “No, mujer. En broma”. Atribuirte la autoría del Bloc de Notas siempre te ha garantizado, al menos, una sonrisa.
Pero esta pequeña broma no es más que una introducción para presentar uno de los grandes misterios de la informática. A pesar de que el Bloc de Notas (o Notepad, para los de Wisconsin) es una de las piezas de software más utilizadas de toda la historia, ¿Alguien tiene la más remota idea de quién o quiénes lo programaron? Bueno, pues yo lo he averiguado… o casi.
Al final de la década de los 90, una asociación de profesionales de Internet organizó una encuesta para determinar el Mejor Servidor Web o el Mejor Navegador Web. Increíblemente, el ganador en la categoría de Mejor Herramienta de Desarrollo Web fue… el Bloc de Notas.
Cuando la organización se puso en contacto con Microsoft para averiguar el autor del Bloc de Notas y poder invitarlo a la ceremonia de entrega de premios, nadie en el equipo de desarrollo de Windows pudo recordar quien o quienes habían programado el Bloc de Notas. Una década después, la autoría del Bloc de Notas seguía perdida en las arenas del tiempo… hasta que Raymond Chen levantó la liebre en su blog.
Raymond explica que consiguió la información gracias a una “fuente independiente” que le confirmó la autoría del programa. Según el Señor Chen, el autor del Bloc de Notas trabajó como Jefe de Desarrollo en el equipo de Windows 95. Después del lanzamiento de Windows 95, abandonó el desarrollo de software para convertirse en profesor de Ciencias en un instituto.
A pesar de la insistencia, Raymond se ha negado a revelar el nombre del autor. Según él, “para preservar su intimidad”.
No he conseguido averiguar el nombre del Jefe de Desarrollo de Windows 95, pero lo que sí he encontrado es un huevo de pascua documentado de Windows 95, con el que podemos ver el nombre de todos los miembros del equipo de desarrollo.
Aquí me he quedado, no he querido ir más allá. Quizás porque tenga miedo a despertar a los espíritus de la programación si llego a encontrar al autor; quizás porque nunca se sabe cuándo vendrá bien atribuirse de nuevo la autoría del Bloc de Notas :); pero, sobre todo, porque hay cosas que es mejor que permanezcan ocultas. Nuestra profesión, probablemente la mejor profesión del mundo, perdería un halo de romanticismo y de misterio si todo, absolutamente todo, se supiera. Incluido quien demonios programó el Bloc de Notas.
Para aquellos que se atrevan a ir más lejos, allí donde yo no he llegado, aquí les dejo un vídeo con el famoso huevo de pascua donde aparecen todos los miembros del equipo de desarrollo de Windows 95. Supongo que sólo es cuestión de empezar a googlear nombres hasta dar con el autor. Os deseo suerte.
Tags: bloc de notas, notepad, windows 95
Categorias: david, humor, software | 69 comentarios
69 respuestas a “Yo programé el Bloc de Notas”
¿Alguien ha intentado comentar algo y ha tenido problemas? Super Arranz me ha avisado de que un par de comentarios le han desaparecido… (quizás sea la Maldición del Buscador del Autor del Bloc de Notas)
Bloc de notas. En serio que uno de los software más utilizados en la historia. No me lo creo. Tal vez si fuera un gedit o un kwrite, quien sabe.
Quizás algunos vean al Bloc de Notas como una herramienta útil para sentarse a crear/editar archivos de código fuente para algunos lenguajes de programación, pero a estas alturas ya existen herramientas que han superado muy por encima lo que ofrece el Bloc de Notas. Como escribió Ricardo, y como también lo piensan otras personas, gedit o kwirte son excelentes opciones para aquellas personas que apenas inician su actividad como programadores o para aquellos que llevan años programando. Y yo soy usuario asiduo de kwrite. Hasta pronto.
Pero amigos… ¿de que estamos hablando? ¿De verdad creéis que el GEdit o el KWrite están mas extendidos que el editor de texto por defecto del Sistema Operativo más extendido en el mundo? :)
Nadie discute aquí la calidad del Bloc de Notas… es como si nos pusiéramos a discutir si es mejor el Paint o el Gimp. Evidentemente es mejor el Gimp, pero ¿de verdad tenéis la más mínima duda de cual es el más usado?
Un saludo a los dos (Ricardo y jhonoo)
ajajaj yo si entendi el mensaje, la verdad david tiene razon, gustenos o nos (con mal soporte UTF o no) en el notepad se han escrito mas palabras que en cualquier otro editor de texto.
Pero que mal me he expresado. A ver, un poco más despacio (que ya acabó la jornada laboral :-D ). Lo que quice decir es que considerando que es poco amigable para el usuario final, me parece que el bloc de notas NO lo usa mucha gente. He visto muchas personas que ni sabían que existía el bloc de notas en su ordenador, y más bien extrañaban el word o el excel, cuando no está, pero hasta ahora nadie me ha preguntado por el bloc de notas (salvo que sea un informático medio despistado). Cuando mencioné gedit o write (mala comparativa hice), lo que quice decir es que si al menos fuera algo más amigable tal vez más gente lo usaría, aunque creo que inconscientemente también pensé en los hacker de antaño, los que no conocían windows usaban el vi y cosas por el estilo. Pero visto desde otra perspectiva (de programadores) tal vez tenga algo de cierto.
Para mi es imprescindible y lo tengo siempre abierto a modo de post-it sin asociar a ningún archivo, las ideas y tareas que se me vienen a la cabeza las apunto ahí, cuando cierro el ordenador y me pide salvar es el momento para clasificarlas entre: chorradas que merece la pena olvidar o tareas/ideas importantes que merece la pena poner a salvo.
También lo uso para hacer un pequeño resumen de los programas instalables que tenga en el ordenador etc etc, por todas partes tengo archivos Leeme.txt … en fin. Es como el Scott Brite "ya no puedo estar sin él" (con la canción del viejo anuncio queda mejor).
El verdadero desconocido del mundo Windows es el WordPad, yo creo que para mucha gente que se instala un Office pirata el WordPad les resultaría suficiente.
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