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Emacs 22 on April 23

Posted Apr 10, 2007 17:35 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Emacs 22 on April 23 by smitty_one_each
Parent article: Emacs 22 on April 23

Some government-owned databases still use COBOL-based storage systems written in the 1960s. These are kept running and updated because the agencies that run them either can't afford to change, or don't care enough to bother changing.

But, as far as end-user programs that are used on desktops, I think Emacs may qualify as the oldest still in use.

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Posted Apr 10, 2007 18:19 UTC (Tue) by daney (subscriber, #24551) [Link]

AIUI there have been several versions of Emacs. I am not sure when GNU Emacs was created, but I believe that it was sometime in the '80s.

Surely things like FORTRAN could be considered to be much older.

Emacs 22 on April 23

Posted Apr 11, 2007 3:01 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Well, yes, Emacs was originally created as a set of TECO macros, but it was by the same person
who created GNU Emacs, RMS.

As for FORTRAN...yes, the language is much, much older. But implementations of it are probably
not.