Interesting fact:

Conteaza’s question regarding source code of ASN being old got me wondering about the origins of Ascension source code. It was not properly forked from some other coin on github/bitbucket, so was not obvious what it was  cloned from.
And so I did a bit of a research…
Turns out it goes like this: Bitcoin -> PPCoin -> NovaCoin -> BoostCoin -> Ascension.

I also renamed current AscensionCoin repository to AscensionCoin-legacy and re-created AscensionCoin as a fork of boostcoin-core.
You can see how it is possible to turn BoostCoin into Ascension coin by looking at the first few commits in AscensionCoin github.
(You can verify this by checking out AscensionCoin and AscensionCoin-legacy repos and doing a file comparison with a tool like WinMerge)