If you're talking about applications that can be made to act how their namesake predecessors did 30 years ago, sure. The Unix mindset is all about that.

But don't be fooled into thinking that anything on a modern Unix-like system hasn't been modified, patched or rewritten from scratch at some point in the last 30 years. More than once. Even /bin/false has a changelog.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 4 points 7 hours ago

It is committed long-term maintenance that separates a road from a desire pathway.

It is committed long-term maintenance that eventually makes software solid enough to be someone else's substrate.

/bombast

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 75 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Slightly pedantic, but according to core-utils GitHub, false.c has not been changed in 21 years. But true.c, which is what false.c is based on, has been changed as recent as 4 months ago.

~I couldn’t resist looking it up, and found the results mildly interesting.~

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 3 points 6 hours ago

Most changes are updating the copyright year.
After that, it's pretty much (or maybe completely, I haven't checked exhaustively) for the --help and --version flags, not for the core part of exiting with a certain exit code.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

#define AUTHORS proper_name ("Jim Meyering")

The true author, so to speak.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

you mispelled super interesting

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago

You misspelled misspell 🤪