Open Source and Programming Languages
The vast majority of programming languages in use today have a free software implementation available. Since the 1990s, the release of major new programming languages in the form of open source compilers and/or interpreters has been the norm, rather than the exception. Examples include Python in 1991, Ruby in 1995 and Scala in 2003.
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