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Yes, but it was also owned by MS, a big company. I think closed source language is a terrible business model, especially considering that this model managed to
by js8 9y ago
Yes, but it was also owned by MS, a big company. I think closed source language is a terrible business model, especially considering that this model managed to kill several well-known programming languages (Smalltalk, Common Lisp).
- erikj 9y agoSmalltalk was never owned by a single company since the first public release in 1980. Common Lisp was born in cooperation between Symbolics, Texas Instruments, Xerox, CMU and was never owned by a single company either. Neither of them exclusively had closed-source implementations.
- cies 9y ago(..., Miranda, ColdFusion, Opa, ...)
- zem 9y agowas opa closed source? I don't remember it being, at least not at the time I first encountered it.
- cies 9y agoIt was closed for the first year, then went "open" but with AGPL therefor you cannot make non-opensource software with it if it has any users beyond yourself. It is a clear case of the license hampering the adoption of an otherwise good idea (JSX is so commonplace now, Opa had it already in 2010). But you are right, the actual close source era of Opa was very short.