What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running?

Submitted by phil on May 11, 2008 - 4:56pm.

...which was implanted in his chest shortly before his escape from the Viet Cong. 1,700 lines of COBOL, and still going strong!

Sadly, it has a Y2K bug. This explains why the John McCain of 2008 is not the same as the one from eight years ago.

Submitted by q00u on May 11, 2008 - 5:43pm.

This is a pretty popular comment.

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Submitted by veridicus on May 11, 2008 - 7:54pm.

I was nice and deleted mine. :)

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Submitted by veridicus on May 12, 2008 - 9:15am.

Actually, now that I think about it, I should have left the dup. I mean what's a slashdot meta site without the duplicate posts?

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