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> I wonder if Java code from 20 years ago would just run happily on a new Java version.

Absolutely.



That's good to know. I haven't touched Java myself in years, but at work I hear of developers complaining that our code runs on Java 11 and they haven't been given the time to move it to a more recent version.

Personally, I've encountered great difficulties with some old SAN software that required a Java 6 web plugin that I couldn't get running on anything other than Internet Explorer - I kept an XP VM with the correct version just for that. I suspect a large part of the problem was the software incorrectly attempts to check that the version is at least 6, but fails when the version is newer (they obviously didn't test it when later versions got released).




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