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I Millllllllion years old Slacker00718-May-15 0:59 Slacker007 18-May-15 0:59  and counting. Re: I Millllllllion years old AndyKEnZ18-May-15 21:30 AndyKEnZ 18-May-15 21:30  You youngsters, we had to punch holes in leather strips with bits of bone before that... Swift can it all KarstenK17-May-15 23:51 KarstenK 17-May-15 23:51  with Swift you can incorporate the "old" Obejctive-C code, which was written in the good old days of "His Steviness" Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany Slightly skewed answer... CHill6017-May-15 21:18 CHill60 17-May-15 21:18  .. as I've based this on my last post (I'm currently "resting") and there was a lot of mainframe pensions admin code still being used that was written waaaay back when. That's just the nature of the beast in Financial Services though - even if the product is no longer actively sold the maintenance of the existing policies can go on for very long periods (imagine a 20yr old taking out a pension policy and working to 55 ... there's 35yrs straight away) Oldest code is 6 or 7 years old, but... OriginalGriff17-May-15 19:23 OriginalGriff 17-May-15 19:23  ...some of the code that is translated from (and the algorithms behind it) are thirty plus by now! In fact, some of it goes back to 1972! See this: A C# implementation of AI MEMO 239, Item 169- Count the one bits in a number[^] - beautiful code, optimized algorithms. Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... Re: Oldest code is 6 or 7 years old, but... RugbyLeague19-May-15 2:42 RugbyLeague 19-May-15 2:42  I used to use that algorithm - replaced it recently with calls to __popcnt

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