Re: [libreplanet-discuss] List of free as in freedom programming language

[Koz Ross]

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> So we can learn any programming language without risk in time to see
> it becoming more (close, proprietary, restricted ...) than another
> one?

Let's be a bit more specific here. There are several potential sources
of nonfreedom in a language:

- - The language's standard (or specification) may be nonfree.
- - The language's compiler or interpreter may be nonfree.
- - The language's toolchain may contain nonfree things.

There are languages which are not affected by any of these things
(Guile, for example), there are languages which fail in some places,
but not others (for example, Dlang), and there are languages which fail
in all three (although this is exceedingly rare these days).

I would say that as free software supporters, the last two are the most
concerning - a nonfree spec or standard isn't something we tend to
worry about as much (since the *C* standard is technically nonfree, but
I don't see anyone in our community calling for us to stop using it).

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