[svlug] oldest living open source software

[Sanatan Rai]

: The first program written for a programmable electronic computer was
: written by J. Von Neumann to demonstrate the advantages of the EDVAC,
: (which was programmable-the ENIAC was not,) in June, 1945, (the wife
: of Herman Goldstine, one of the architects of the ENIAC, did the
: coding-it was a merge sort, similar to sort(1).) The paper was
: entitled "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC," and was distributed
: to the Moore School staff in late June[1]. (So the story goes, Von
: Neumann wrote the program on a train to the presentation of the paper
: in August to demonstrate what kind of things the EDVAC could do.)

	By this token, would it not be fair to regard K&R's

	#include <stdio.h>

	main()
	{
	    printf("Hello world!\n") ;
	    return 0 ;
	}

as the first OSS?

--Sanatan

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