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The longevity of figlet is astounding. I remember downloading the source in either late 1993 or early 94, and porting it to the Acorn Archimedes, considered ult
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
The longevity of figlet is astounding. I remember downloading the source in either late 1993 or early 94, and porting it to the Acorn Archimedes, considered ultra high end workstations for the time.
And it's still around! Amazing.
- unicornporn 6y ago> And it's still around! Amazing. Depends in your definition of "still around". Last update over 8 years ago.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoHow do you update perfection?
- unicornporn 6y agoI'm not saying it needs updates. I'm just questioning "still around". Being around is not an accomplishment in the age of oldversion.com and archive.org.
- ainiriand 6y agoI really think we should take a step back and consider that, sometimes, a piece of software is fulfilling a particular function. Once it is proven stable and efficient, no more updates are needed. Lots of problems in our profession could be solved if we had this paradigm in mind at all times while working.
- air7 6y agoAgreed. However we need to devise a way to distinguish between a project that's more or less "done" to one that's hopelessly abandoned and a way to mark old projects as such.
- paraboul 6y ago20+ years ago I used to use this online figlet generator for "MOTD" : http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ Also amazed that this is still online!