News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980). Parent comment

Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980) by jsofteh on Monday September 07, 2015 @11:40PM (#10184032)
It's not really open source. Only the "core." The development environment is excluded.

(Looked into it recently and I was disappointed.)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980) by brudgers on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @08:52AM (#10185354)
Between the command line, scripts and Emacs the J IDE isn't really a big deal for me. Because J was a closed source commercial product and dates to the 1980's their may be copyright licensing issues tied into the code base. It's hard to release existing projects into open source.
[ Parent | on HN ]