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Oomph, the weasel world "popular" makes it hard to argue with, but source code version control systems have been around for a long time and have been, at least
by guenthert 4y ago
Oomph, the weasel world "popular" makes it hard to argue with, but source code version control systems have been around for a long time and have been, at least in commercial code, used. E.g. SCCS was first released in 1973.
Linus was not necessarily wrong in refusing such for the development of Linux until he could be persuaded to use BitKeeper post-burnout, but it was an, er, contrarian stance.
- oso2k 4y agoI hear ya. Maybe you could argue that GNU, BSD or a few other groups were using SCCS but that’s relatively very few developers in comparison to the DOS, Windows 3.x, Amiga, BBC, Apple that we’re producing more code at the time. I’ve seen few bits of early NASA/JPL code and it wasn’t in source control, it was on NFS.