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jannes
Summary: Unix (and especially BSD 4.3)

I hate articles which ask a question in the headline and then answer it only in the last few paragraphs.

greatquux
Duh! I wouldn't be reading my Lions book if it weren't.
kruhft
Emacs, because it's still around after 27 years and in everyday use.

Edit: had the number of years wrong, was originally based on the original emacs and not GNU emacs.

jinushaun
Didn't even have to read the article to guess that the answer is Unix
wccrawford
The first compiler. Thank God for that thing. If it hadn't existed...
bradleyland
... it would have eventually.
wccrawford
And then that would have been the first compiler. Thank God it existed.
[dead] Greedy_Fools
The C compiler, hands down. How much of the other stuff was written in something else ?