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by eru 842 days ago
Goldman Sachs set up continuous integration (with automated testing etc) back in the late 1990s / early 2000s for the eco-system of their in-house language 'Slang'. Great system, way ahead of its time. (The language was also pretty neat for its time. You can tell that the people who came up with had a Lisp background. Think of it as a worse version of today's Python. And probably on par or ahead of 1990s Python.)

In any case, because of when they built that Continuous Integration system, it was all jerry-rigged on top of CVS. Problem is, they were still using that system for Slang 15 years later.