Hacker News Reader

In competitions of real world code in a language that has been in use for close to 30 years, and I can find a java 1.1 program that will both compile as source on the latest version, AND the original compiled version itself will run on a modern JDK as is.

View on HN

And I assume this mythical 1.1 program does of course do a lot more than System.out.println and the reason that it took until recently, in part thanks to the Log4J fiasco, for 8 (almost 11 years old) to no longer be the most widely used version, was just superstition?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com