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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> On 2/17/2018 3:28 PM, Bob Eager 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!
>> 
> And it came home wagging its tail behind it... and you discovered that 
> *you* were the Great Stone Face!!!  ;-)
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stone_Face_(Hawthorne)
> 
> 

At least you know that your program was useful enough that other people
passed it around.

-- 
Pete