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Re:Säkkijärven polkka by vsipuli on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:01PM (#23092562)
And Git (kind of, although that happened after Linus moved away from Finland)
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Re:Säkkijärven polkka by Eyght on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:23PM (#23092863)
MySQL in the same vein.
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Re:Säkkijärven polkka by welfare on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:01PM (#23094950)
MySQL is actually of Swedish origin.
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Re:Säkkijärven polkka by cfinnberg on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:23PM (#23096476)
Well, at least Michael Widenius, the most visible head of MySQL and one of two cofounders, is finnish. He also created the MySQL's fork MariaDB. Both names came from Michael's daughters My and Maria.
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Re:Säkkijärven polkka by marvin on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:11AM (#23102537)
And if you want a less glamorous tidbit to add to that list, OOP originated in Norway with the SIMULA language in the 60s.
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