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On 2/18/2018 5:20 PM, Peter Flass wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hey, I think it's great!!!  I never had such an experience with my code, 
so I'm a bit jealous! I fear that most of my code ended up in "file 13"! 
:-(

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