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When did a language fork work without new goals?
by cies 3y ago
When did a language fork work without new goals?
- bluGill 3y agoJenkins forked Hudson years ago. OpenBSD forked from NetBSD. Many linux distributions are forks of some other. I can't think of any language, but the idea that a fork can work has a long successful history. (And a large history of failure)
- cies 3y agoI know about many successful fork. But forking a language (like including the compiler and the lang spec), never seen that work out.
- bluGill 3y agoC forked Algo. (and many others) ADA forked Pascal (modula? - another fork of Pascal). C++ forked C and Simula. D forked C++. Objective C forked C and gcc. (eventually folded back)
- Woodi 3y agoDo any of that languages had some Hollywood level bullshit about language name ? Mozilla isn't open source first fundation(?), forking of their stuff is urgent.