> On May 29, 2016 at 2:11 PM Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

[...]

> I use grep every day. How often is grep modified?

Most recently on April 22 of this year. It was a bug fix release.

There is a whole screen full of commits for the year 2016 in
    http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.25

Actually, it surprised me too :-)

> You're right. If a program is simple enough to finally get all the bugs
> out of it, that's the golden age of that program.
>
> SteveT

I think in this case that the evolution of the OS base is forcing evolution of programs like grep because now they have to support Unicode and who knows what else?

Peter Olson