[brlcad]

Another fun fact, BRL-CAD was started by Mike Muuss, author of the 'ping' networking tool. Brilliant computer scientist. Also, while it's evolved, the codebase predates nearly everything .. ansi c, c++, tcp/ip, opengl, version control, .. actively developed and funded since 1979.

[bch]

> version control

/me waves constructively, solidly at `brlcad

Your list looks good until “version control”, for which at least sccs[0] began representing in 1972.

I’m not used to catching `brlcad out at… anything, usually. Thought he might enjoy this “technically correct” (the best kind of correct) note.

Not that the list isn’t impressive enough, and BRL-CAD impressive in its own right. And to think it started as a dare.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System

[brlcad]

Haha, yes, that is technically correct, and the best kind. I probably should have qualified with an ambiguous "modern version control" or simply said it predates "RCS" (1982).

There's actually some indications BRL-CAD started in SCCS back around 1980, but any evidence of that is likely on old 10.5" magnetic data reel tapes that can't be read easily. So instead BRL-CAD's documented commit history spans from RCS import to CVS to SVN to Git.

[stew-j]

BRL-CAD was open-sourced in 2004. MIT Scheme was released as free software in 1986 after being started somewhere near 1979 (which was about the time I started programming in Basic, using the TRS-80 and Apple II). The initial revision of the MIT git repo is dated December 1986--I think it started in RCS. The original license was some variation of the MIT one, which requested that changes be sent back to the team if at all possible, with a request to tell them what the use was. They changed to the GPL around release 7 or 8.

My first language was FORTRAN 66, learned from a book in the library, but on paper only as I had no access to a computer until a couple years later in 1979.

[stew-j]

The point of which, looking back at this comment, is that I'm older than BRL-CAD. :)