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Article #620668Re: Nostalgia
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 05:57
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 05:57
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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes: > Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > >> 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! > > 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"! > :-( Creative folks always have this problem. Unless your code goes viral, your painting is in the Guggenheim or your photo on the cover of Time, you never know. A number of smaller metalwork pieces I'm proud of were made for people now dead. I can't help but wonder if the heirs put my piece out in the yard sale with the mismatched flatware, the dog-eared paperbacks and the old venetian blinds. -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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