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Re:If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Shou... by sametmax on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:04PM (#19080096)
The french equivalent of the IRS did open up their software: https://github.com/GouvernementFR/calculette-impots-m-source...

Everybody got very enthousiastic at the begining, then realized:

- it was written in a niche proprietary language: M

- it was provided with almost zero doc or comments

- the process of getting the code was tedious, and the law changes every year

- taxes are complicated

And so nobody did anything with it ever since.

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Re:If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Shou... by Sniffnoy on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:01PM (#19081552)
Huh, usually I've seen "M" used to refer to MUMPS. But this appears to be something else -- I guess something proprietary, like you said. I have to wonder where one would look it up, as I imagine searching for information on the M programming language would mostly turn up information about MUMPS...
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Re:If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Shou... by dragonwriter on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:03PM (#19081570)
> Huh, usually I've seen "M" used to refer to MUMPS

M is also the name of the built in language in Microsoft Power Query.

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