Comment by 9dev
1 day ago
You can’t even compile stuff from 20 years ago without some extensive archeological efforts. I doubt this is your largest problem by then.
1 day ago
You can’t even compile stuff from 20 years ago without some extensive archeological efforts. I doubt this is your largest problem by then.
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I have dozens of projects from 20 years ago that I can compile today.
With respect, I doubt it. Have you tried pulling out a 20 year old tarball and compiling it, without modification, on a modern distro?
I recently unearthed something that I thought was 20 years old when someone asked me about it. I checked and it was only 14 years old based on mtime (thought I suspect I started the project nearly 20 years ago). Another project I unearthed for a different reason was only 13 years old by mtime (again, it was started before that). I must concede that I haven't actually recently compiled and used anything that was untouched for 20 years.
I should note that the first program I wrote that was actually used for a purpose (it calculates energy based on an internal stopwatch and then typing in values from a volt and ammeter, for a science project in 1992) still works in qb64 today.
The second program I wrote that was actually used for a purpose assumes a parallel-port printer on DOS that uses a fairly old version of PCL, and was written in 16-bit C, so probably won't work today.