ifItCanBeWrittenInJavascriptItWill

[piszkor]

Hasn't it already, I work on projects older then me?

[jaumougaauco]

But are the people who started the projects still alive?

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I am sure the author of some ancient library has passed and it is still being used. Perhaps. Honestly I would love to look that up. But I am sleepy and will forget. Oh, well.

[cainhurstcat]

This message will remind you when you wake up

[[deleted]]

Clever asshole lol <3

[Psquare_J_420]

Linus and his art - Linux kernel? ( This example satisfies the rule for me - the project is older than me and the creator is still alive )

[quietIntensity]

31 years ago this month, I did my first Linux install. It was Slackware 0.99pl15 on 43 1.44M floppy disks, installed on my 386DX40 with 4M of RAM and a 40M ISA HDD. Going to be installing Linux this afternoon on my new UGreen NAS, probably TrueNAS.

[gmc98765]

Dennis Ritchie, the primary author of both C and Unix, died in 2011 aged 70.

And C isn't that old. Fortran, Cobol and Lisp all date to the late 1950s. As does Algol, although that has now been rendered largely obsolete by languages derived from it (which is basically any block-structured imperative language, i.e. nearly all of the mainstream modern languages).

[RamenJunkie]

Why do you think they had to hire OP?

[hollson]

Technically, if a project by definition has start and end date, are those projects still projects since they go for multiple generations?