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My VIC-20 and Commodore 64 versions were better, but those came later
The smaller the userbase, the more likely the code is to remain in service forever. The oldest code I've written is http://www3.amherst.edu/~scrutiny/about.php , which has gotten a facelift since I wrote it in 2004, but otherwise seems to have the same functionality and code backing it. Pretty much everything professional is gone...hell, the only employer of mine that is still in business is Google. When I left them…
Is that code?
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.
>no known bugs 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.
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.
2000. VB6. Manufacturing workflow / management system, BOM..... I did some consulting work at the same company a year ago and that system was still chugging along. They had pretty much rewritten / replaced everything else around the place but apparently didn't see a need to change my module. I was amused to have a couple of guys come and ask me questions/advice, and all I could do was sympathize.
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.
Anyone know of a client that supports this other than Notes? (sorry for the hijack)