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Ask HN: What are the pieces of software that may last forever?

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Post by samrohn » Thu, May 07, 2020, 10:03 AM UTC

My answer git, bitcoin, wikipedia

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Post by amypinka » Thu, May 07, 2020, 12:05 PM UTC

Libc, zlib, sqlite3

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Post by _jon_ » Thu, May 07, 2020, 12:29 PM UTC

MS Excel

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Post by gentryb » Thu, May 07, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

emacs

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Post by searchableguy » Thu, May 07, 2020, 12:51 PM UTC

electron, chrome

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Post by dutymainttech » Thu, May 07, 2020, 12:55 PM UTC

vi / vim

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Post by hackerman123469 » Thu, May 07, 2020, 12:56 PM UTC

winrar

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Post by mcv » Thu, May 07, 2020, 12:56 PM UTC

Anything written in COBOL.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 07, 2020, 1:01 PM UTC

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Post by newswasboring » Thu, May 07, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

I'm pretty sure Matlab will last forever. There is a healthy company backing it with technology lock in from many, many companies where programming is not their core competence.

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