🚀 go-pugleaf

On 17 Feb 2018 21:28:14 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:

>On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:24:34 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On 2018-02-17, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think most of us started out writing impenetrable, commentless code.
>>> When you're doing a student project it's A) small, B) completed quickly
>>> enough that you usually don't forget how it's working C)
>>> keypunched/typed by you D) run once and thrown away.  In my experience
>>> that's the biggest step from student programming assignments to
>>> production work-the code may be complex and had to be understood by
>>> lots of people, perhaps years later.
>> 
>> And one of them might be you.
>
>Exactly. Might be worth recounting this story (possibly a repeat, but...)
>
>About 15 years ago I had a need for a particular program on a PC. It was 
>a one-off, and it had to be in BASIC, as the machine wasn't connected to 
>anything else - all I could do was move small files using INTERLNK/
>INTERSVR (remember those?)
>
>I searched the Internet and found an ideal program. I downloaded it, 
>transferred it to the PC and it did exactly what I wanted.
>
>Being me, I had a look at the source code. The more I looked at it, the 
>more mystified I became by the style of programming. It was how I might 
>have written it.
>
>Then it hit me. I *had* written it, a further 15 years before. I had sent 
>it to various people but not bothered keeping a copy. It had come back to 
>me!

Did your program lose its flavor on the boomerang as it came back over
several years later ?

A sort of blend from 'Tie me Kangaroo Down' and 'Does your chewing gum
lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight ?'. An Auzzie song and a
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs fandango.