[E-Lang] language popularity

[Marc Stiegler]

> I seem to recall the source to cfront from AT&T being generally available.
> While I don't know what the license terms actually were back then, people
> also paid less attention to these terms.  If source was available, then
> fixes were made and distributed without assuming that permission was
needed.
> I believe we fixed some bugs in cfront during usage at Xanadu.

Yes, the first implementation of C++ was cfront--for a long time that was
the only implementation--
and was treated in the fashion that we treat open source today, whatever its
license may have said.

--marcs