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Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

#71
I'm 68. Here's a Wikipedia article about one of my better-known programs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer

Here's one of my programs that has been available online for 17 years:

http://arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php

Here's an online article about some programs I wrote in the early 1970s, before Apple Writer:

http://arachnoid.com/programmable_calculators/index.html

And here's a program I updated this afternoon:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arachnoid....

All my programs are free and open-source.

Here's an old article about me:

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

#72
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I'm 2^5. My oldest code online is a Forth compiler I wrote when I was 2^4: https://github.com/benhoyt/third#readme

> I'm 2^5. My oldest code online is a Forth compiler I wrote when I was 2^4 ...

Hah! Birthdays at your house must be really big events, each taking twice as long to appear as the previous one.

Maybe that's not such a bad idea. As we get older, time seems to pass more quickly, so ...

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

#75
I'm 48. I wrote the XbaeMatrix X/Motif widget set and uploaded to export.mit.lcs.mit.edu in 1991. Here's a directory listing from shortly thereafter http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/Xorg/R5contrib/Xstuff

Xbae is still actively maintained (but no longer by me) http://xbae.sourceforge.net/

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