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/me waves constructively, solidly at `brlcad

Your list looks good until “version control”, for which at least sccs[0] began representing in 1972.

I’m not used to catching `brlcad out at… anything, usually. Thought he might enjoy this “technically correct” (the best kind of correct) note.

Not that the list isn’t impressive enough, and BRL-CAD impressive in its own right. And to think it started as a dare.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System

Haha, yes, that is technically correct, and the best kind. I probably should have qualified with an ambiguous "modern version control" or simply said it predates "RCS" (1982).

There's actually some indications BRL-CAD started in SCCS back around 1980, but any evidence of that is likely on old 10.5" magnetic data reel tapes that can't be read easily. So instead BRL-CAD's documented commit history spans from RCS import to CVS to SVN to Git.

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