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It was the first thing I wrote and I'm still insanely proud of it.
It's chugging along sending 5-6 reminder emails every day and I use it once a month or so.
I do know there are plugins I wrote for ACDSee as a coop student in 2000. I can still see some of the icons I drew.
Roughly a decade. The VB6 program that I wrote to test a prototype of a measurement instrument, is still used in the factory, supporting manufacturing of the released product. It's a couple thousand lines, and nobody wants to touch it with a ten foot pole, but it also has no known bugs, and will live for the remaining lifetime of the product.
I don't think I have ever heard that phrase. Every non-trivial piece of software I have ever worked on has a collection of bugs that just get carried forward indefinitely ie hard to fix, only affects a small number of people and there is an easy work around so just ignore it. The idea of having zero open bugs is... foreign.
I believe that both variations are still running, the CF version on Metafilter, and the PHP version was used in B2, which became WordPress. A few years ago, I was asked by the WP team to relicense the code from GPLv2 to GPLv2+ and sure enough, it lives on with relatively few modifications in WordPress: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/b1804afeaf07eb97...
Perhaps most notable, is that I wrote it w/o having taken a compilers class or having much (any) understanding of stack-based parsing, but it still lives on, so I guess it was good enough to get the job done.