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Re: Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

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Post by Tossrock »

People still play the Warcraft III map I made in 2006, mostly in Russia. It relied heavily on an extension of the scripting language called vJass created by a genius eastern european hacker named Vexorian and was one of the most advanced of its type for a while.

It was also ported to the DotA 2 engine, where it has millions (!) of subscribers.

Re: Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

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Post by lostdiaspora »

A section of macro assembler written in 1983/84 that I wrote that validated the MICR encoding on the bottom of a cheque ran as far as I know every day without error until at least 2007 processing 30-40% of the daily cheques in a European country It may still be running but all the guys I knew are gone! I'm the reason banks have technical debt. They'd track me down every 10 years or so when a major change was required. I also have a C++ system I architected and built in 1992 still running round the world. The codebase has been refactored to some extent as it was originally designed for Investment Banking but it now runs on line gambling, who'd have thought it?

Re: Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

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Post by le-mark »

damienkatz wrote: post #27

1998. Lotus Formula Language Runtime engine. Completely rewrote the original written by Ray Ozzie. GA released in 1999 in Lotus Notes/Domino R5.

The sad thing is, that vintage of lotus notes was actually tolerable, compared to what came later.

Re: Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

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Post by haberman »

MP3 importing code for the Audacity audio editor. I wrote this in 2002. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/src/import/...

Amusingly, a TODO I put is still there:

   /* TODO: get rid of this by adding fixed-point support to SampleFormat.
    * For now, we allocate temporary float buffers to convert the fixed
    * point samples into something we can feed to the WaveTrack.  Allocating
    * big blocks of data like this isn't a great idea, but it's temporary.
    */
"temporary" indeed. :)

Re: Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

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Post by koz1000 »

1995. Pinball game code for Williams Electronics "Jack*Bot".

I also don't count it as code, but the Pinball Expo 1994 website I put together before that (in Notepad, natch) is apparently still up and running at Linköping University in Sweden:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/expo/

Re: Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

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Post by busterarm »

I've thrown up several quick sites for friends and family using very simple markup over the years.

Both my brother's site (1999) and an ex-gf's art portfolio (2002?) are for the most part unchanged in all this time.

They don't look amazing but they're still...decent.

Some sites I made for a school I went to are still up since 1997, but I don't think they're directly linkable from the main page anymore, just hosted and indexed by google...

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