A readme file for Dylan Araps from 3 days ago saying “have taken up farming” and the github page for neofetch has also been archived. Good for him I guess.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I can’t think of a single piece of software that’s “done.” Even TEX is only at version 3.141592653, not π.

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      6 months ago

      There are some commonly used programming algorithms and snippets that have been in use and unchanged from their original C code since the 70s and 80s, because they do exactly the thing they are supposed to do, and nobody has come up with a better way of doing it. I have a fast hash function in a program of mine that was written by a guy in the early 2000s who was benchmarking various existing hash algorithms of the time, and that same function is still used in hundreds of other pieces of software.

      I don’t know of entire full programs that are like this though.