Robin Luckey: “The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories”
Robin Luckey of Ohloh.net gathered information on oldest public source code repositories. Top three are:
- BRL-CAD, started in April 1983;
- GNU Emacs, April 1985;
- GCC, the GNU Complier Collection, November 1988;
Read the article at Ohloh.net: “The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories”.
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