[mark_l_watson]

You definitely get +1 for writing the most true comment I have read today. This also happens in the Common Lisp world: there are old libraries that are very solid and useful even if they have not been modified for a while.

Years ago, I thought of writing a science fiction story predicated on the idea that in the far future that the world would run on ancient software that was proved correct and made perfect by being debugged over the centuries.