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As for your old code ports. I am sure that there is some ported turbo pascal code in my MFC extension dlls that I use in all my applications.
John
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Loved that game.... I wonder if I still have the diskettes lying around somewhere...
onwards and upwards...
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I would guess that the myth of the 3 year lifespan for software relates to the average time developers spend at a single company.
I'm sure that software I wrote 10 years ago is still being maintained and I can guess that no one there even knows who I am. Perhaps they wonder who the heck "TEW" is and why he initialed, dated, and commented all of the modifications in each source file. 
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Tom Welch wrote:
Perhaps they wonder who the heck "TEW" is
Yeah, who is that bastard anyway? All these comments everywhere making the code a breeze to maintain. It's kind of hard to make myself indisposable if anybody else can take over. Grrr..
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Let me burn you down.
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It is sort of a bad question since it asks for the existence of such code. To be a truly good question, it should ask about significant portions of code. For example, "Is five or more percent of your code older than...". This eliminates outliers.
Then again, I am just being anal.
Tim Smith
I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
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I've got an application, originally developed in 1990, which is still being maintained. It's a diagnostic program used to exercise our hardware during maintenance and field service operations. The program is one of those things that everyone wants updated, but it's not sexy enough to spend the resources to rewrite  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hehe
mine is:
10 Print"Hello World"
20 goto 10
and its nearly 20 years old
Zhang Ziyi
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Bit of a CPU hog though 
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No wonder my ZX-81 is really hot, and the 1KB expansion ram is glowing hot too
Zhang Ziyi
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Since the poll was "What is the oldest significant piece of code you have in a current application?" I am curious what an INSIGNIFICANT piece of code would be...
C++/MFC/InstallShield since 1993
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Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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You mean it's been running for 20 years and not terminated yet
Best ragards
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If I don't actually know? There's some fairly big stuff I did for a company 4/5 years ago which might still be running, and there's almost certainly some 3 year old code still going from my last job. Given I've only been in my current job a year (to the day - time for ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) ), I don't have anything that old.
OTOH, The first code I wrote here is still running in a server program which is getting heavily adapted for a different project, and my code is about the only thing still going to be used in it 
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Ian Darling
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On current moment I write applications on .NET - I have oldest component < 1 year
For c++ my oldest code is 5 years...
On my mind results does not say anything about real state of code reusing...
Needed at least two tests: one for .NET and one for C++
Good Luck
Alex Kucherenko
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Yes, but just because the average lifespan of a piece of code is 3 years doesn't mean the rest of the code in the app is also out of date.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Yes, but this is something they regulary forget when teaching statistics for medics... 
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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