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i've had nightmares about this, building something, walking away, finding to my horror 10 years later they haven't replaced it with something better. :D

@nixCraft eh, even if you could, somebody would break it.

@nixCraft maybe civil engineering is more your speed

@nixCraft I have some Xlib programs written in C that still work after 30 years. But that's probably not what you're looking for ...

@nixCraft I have my dad's old school calculator from the 70s that still works fine, a bit bashed up though.

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awk(1) of course, where code written decades ago still works perfectly fine. No library-drift, no API changes, no major language changes…just pure consistency. 😛

@nixCraft I recently had an old client call me and said her server stopped working and needed fixing. It was actually 10 years old and the hd failed

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@nixCraft if it happens, you will cry a lot when you will have to come back to make modifications. Hopely, you will have changed and it may be difficult to maintain with more modern methods…

@nixCraft At my day job there is program written in pre-ANSI C that is still used for crucial user management.

@nixCraft clay tablets or gravestones come to my mind, but the functions are limited.

@nixCraft COBOL and RPG? Oh wait, you said decade not century 😀