c/opensource · by SlykeThePhoxenix@programming.dev · 331dMicrosoft's first-ever programming language was just open-sourced https://www.pcworld.com/article/2898698/microsofts-first-ever-programming-language-was-just-open-sourced.html61 points · 10 comments · view on lemmy.world
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Auster@thebrainbin.org · 50 pts · 331d
Saved you a click and a referral:
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 15 pts · 331d
Thank you.
Great news for retrocomputing.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 15 pts · 331d
Chooses to use picture of machine that ran Commodore Basic as illustration
Ron@zegheteens.nl · 7 pts · 331d
That was the most know computer running that software.
Commodore Basis == Microsoft Basic
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 15 pts · 331d
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.
sukhmel@programming.dev · 4 pts · 331d
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
shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 331d
That's what I learned on!
djcas9@feed.djcas9.com · 2 pts · 330d
First purchased*
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 331d
*slow clap*
hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 331d
and then everyone clapped