Microsoft's first-ever programming language was just open-sourced
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Great news for retrocomputing.
Chooses to use picture of machine that ran Commodore Basic as illustration
That was the most know computer running that software.
Commodore Basis == Microsoft Basic
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.
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
That's what I learned on!
First purchased*
*slow clap*
and then everyone clapped