Maybe my contributions to curb the ruby binding for ruby? Anyone using it?
Ask HN: What is your longest lasting code?
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#32I build a website in 1999 for a company which remained online unchanged until ~2019.
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#33I wrote a bunch of C and VBScript in the 1990s that is still in production.
I helped familiarize a new employee with said code.
I wrote that code before they were born.
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#34Somewhere around 1990, I wrote a system in Turbo Pascal to monitor and record the results from a PLC used to calibrate large water meters for the City of Chicago. I had a cooperative multi-tasking system that I used to keep everything updating a GUI while doing all the other work. Somewhere around 2010, they contacted me because they had a problem with it when they replaced the computer with a newer system. It turned…
I wrote the postal game Quest back in 1989-1990, a 1,000 player postal game. 40,000 lines of Turbo Pascal. Others came after and fixed some of the bugs and it's now run over the internet. https://kjcgames.com/quest/quest.htm
Re: Ask HN: What is your longest lasting code?
#35Custom email client written 10 years ago. It stopped spam and reminds me to write down ideas.
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#36Back in 2000-2001 I wrote a new compiler and linker for a cross-platform Visual Basic workalike called REALbasic. In 2016, the company contracted me to help out with a major new language feature they wanted to introduce, so I got a good look at the codebase, and most of what I'd written was still in use. (This inspired both pride and horror!) They have since replaced the code generator backends I wrote with LLVM - an eminently sensible decision - and they've renamed the product "Xojo", but most of what I built is still running.
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#37I build an automated VBA code in a American Bank to automate daily reports on daily operations. Inefficient but it was the cheapest and only software that pc was able to run. It still working.