# Running old code examples today

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**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/running-old-code-examples-today/7870 "2023-10-13T08:16:41Z")\
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> [@HelgeStenstrom](#):
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> I can’t easily see how it was back in 2008.

Welcome Helge. You can still hunt down [# Version 6.8.3 (released 17 June 2008)](https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_683.html) and find the as-was [`sendTo :: Socket -> String -> SockAddr -> IO Int`](https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.8.3/docs/html/libraries/network/Network-Socket.html#v%3AsendTo)

Admittedly it took me a bit of Hoogle-hinted guesswork the library would be Network.Socket.

> [@](#):
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> My question is about a general strategy.

Yeah. It would be tedious guessing all the time. The Release Notes back then mostly related to language changes, not libraries. And you’re talking about a time before the [FTP/AMP libraries reorg](http://discourse.haskell.org/t/the-evolution-of-ghc/4008/37).

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