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On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 15:43:21 -0600, JimP wrote:

> 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 ?

Well, it was OK, but I wasn't all that impressed with it! :)



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