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> This story is a winding one, beginning in 1981. Kermit is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest actively-maintained software package with an original devel
by tazjin 3y ago
> This story is a winding one, beginning in 1981. Kermit is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest actively-maintained software package with an original developer still participating.
This is a bit of a philosophical question, for example, much of the (Lisp) code in current Emacs is from the 70s, but the GNU Emacs interpreter wasn't started until the mid 80s (also ... people weren't great at version control in the 70s, so there's not much actual development history).
- queuebert 3y agoI'm sure there are a bunch of Fortran libraries, like BLAS and LINPACK, that are still actively developed by the original developers and date back to the '70s. (Assuming one bug fix per decade counts as "actively developed".)
- TheRealKing 3y agoThe petroleum industry and academia have codebases dating back to FORTRAN66, which are still actively developed, albeit in modern Fortran.