Was looking at some deep old stuff in a repo I work on, last touched in 1993. I think it still gets used, somewhere? Some old fundamental stuff. Pre-standard C++. It seems robust and clear, anyway
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it's not 'never been patched', but after a certain point the crab genome doesn't get many patches
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Not so sure that follows...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation …
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The decoder layer for a particular custom serial protocol. 18-ish years.
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The Cg compiler has been running for what... 14 years?
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A “secure server” which is a windows XP box that signs important things and generates keys, using a completely insecure TCP-based protocol that relies on firewall rules to stop abuse. Nobody touches it because it falls between the cracks of about 5 different divisions


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It’s roughly 16 years old I think. Everyone has nodded and agreed that it’s terrible for at least 12 years, but no group wants to put their hand up to fix it (potentially incurring the wrath of the others, as they’d need to change process)
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Telescope control and analysis software. Physicists and astrophysicists tend to write their own from first principles, and shifting my focus from those circles, I regularly ran into code and libraries that were written multiple decades before and still usable and used.
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^before shifting my focus...
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Almost worked for a fintech that had rails on top of FORTRAN from the 80s. Did work for an adtech that still had a mainframe in 2005.
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