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Microsoft's first-ever programming language was just open-sourced (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

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