Microsoft's first-ever programming language was just open-sourced
Microsoft's first-ever programming language was just open-sourced
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Microsoft's first-ever programming language was just open-sourced
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First purchased*
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Chooses to use picture of machine that ran Commodore Basic as illustration
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That was the most know computer running that software.
Commodore Basis == Microsoft Basic
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It’s Microsoft BASIC btw.
Another situation where many people will be surprised to find out it wasn’t already open source. It’s kinda comical to imagine them caring to keep that source code a secret decades after its deprecation.
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It’s kinda comical to imagine them caring to keep that source code a secret decades after its deprecation.
I feel like this is very common and it makes it much less comical. There are cases where sources were leaked, but still not legally available, afaik
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That's what I learned on!
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and then everyone clapped
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slow clap*
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Saved you a click and a referral:
Thank you.
Great news for retrocomputing.