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Or make one you don't understand the purpose of, rewriting GNU Autoconf in GNU make would serve no purpose since what Autoconf does has nothing to do with building, but rather finding out details about the running system. Maybe you wer
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by amszmidt 3y ago
Because the FSF is a software freedom advocacy group, they do not do software development. The FSF also doesn't "manage" the GNU project, which is a entirely volunteer project that is managed by it self ( https://w
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The metal has literally nothing to do with Stephen Wolfram…
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I know that this is becoming a trope, but Smalltalk and Lisp Machines did all those things far before 1995. Similarly, GNU Emacs today is capable of all of the above and has been managing for multiple decades at this point in a more modern
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In Sweden it is very common, and this is mostly a cash-less country. You can usually get these plastic coins to use as a substitute, and I don't think I've ever seen a broken trolley here
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GNU Shepherd (was aka DMD) predates systemd by many years. And many other “PID 1” efforts. It also had different goals when Wolfgang and I designed it, one might say even incompatible since we were targeting the GNU/Hurd specifically a
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CUPS was done by Easy Software Products, in 1997. Apple adopted it only in 2002. Swift is a language entirely in the control of Apple, mainly targeting Apples platforms. With little to no community engagement. Bonjour is not really cross p
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Or GNU poke ( https://www.gnu.org/software/poke/ ) source files which are called "pickles".
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Maybe you are thinking of Phantom Stacks[1]. Spaghetti stacks where created by Bobrow and Wegbreit in 1972. [1]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6331