Laurent Ribardière founded the French company 4D SAS and its US Subsidiary 4D Inc in 1984, when he began development of 4th Dimension (or 4D) which was code-named Silver Surfer at the time.
4D had its initial product release in 1987[1][2][3] with its own programming language.
[4] Laurent is the original author of Wakanda[5][6] and founded the Wakanda SAS company.
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