LastCalc Is Open Sourced

Sanity writes "LastCalc is a cross between Google Calculator, a spreadsheet, and a powerful functional programming language, all with a robust and flexible heuristic parser. It even lets you write functions that pull in data from elsewhere on the web. It's all wrapped up in a JQuery-based user interface that does as-you-type syntax highlighting. Today, LastCalc's creator, Ian Clarke (Freenet, Revver), has announced that LastCalc will be open sourced under the GNU Affero General Public License 'to accelerate development, spread the workload, and hopefully foster a vibrant volunteer community around the project.'"

Re:Must be Lisp under the hood

[Sanity]

Yeah, you're confusing it with a recursive function definition, I've been meaning to fix that. I guess I'll fire up Eclipse (it's Java, not Lisp)

Re:Too bad it's Affero

[TheRaven64]

Being a user doesn't, but hosting it does. That's the difference between the GPL and AGPL.

Mac Graphing Calculator

[Anonymous Coward]

Still looking for an open source equivalent of one of the greatest calculators ever written. It was bundled with OS8. This one "shows you the math". Every kid should have it.

It's got a really great geek story behind it too. If you don't already know this one, take a minute and enjoy.
http://www.pacifict.com/Story/ [pacifict.com]

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Re:Too bad it's Affero

[bhtooefr]

AGPL is like GPL, but with the additional restriction that you must share source code to users when hosting it on a public-facing server, IIRC.

Re:Too bad it's Affero

[kestasjk]

Before the AGPL came out a BSD-licensed project of mine, webdiplomacy [webdiplomacy.net], was used to build a fork site.
They apparently forgot to credit us, are closed source, and didn't even include the BSD license until they were discovered. Instead of sharing code back they're quite bitter rivals, holding their site hostage for donations and having premium accounts.

Since the AGPL came out there are several other fork sites that have sprung up, but we all pool code changes, and they all market themselves to different niches (e.g. variants or different languages). Many of them are for-profit and host large communities, but we all share code and benefit from it.