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echo: quik_bas
to: BILL WHITE
from: BOB LOTSPEICH
date: 1998-03-17 08:56:00
subject: Old Folks

| Quoting from a message by Bill White
| To Bob Lotspeich
| About - Old Folks
 BW> I'll usually write the program in a rather simple
 BW> fashion, getting it working.  They I begin to add bells
 BW> and whistles, a phase that sometimes never ends!
 Me, too! I like to write a simple working "wire-frame" model, as
it is easier to keep one's thoughts straight, and once it does
everything I want it to, then I add the color, graphics and other
gee-whiz things. I guess the wire-frame model is my "flowchart" now.
 BW> But then again, I write code for pleasure.
 BW> Structure doesn't seem to fit my definition of fun!
I feel the same way. I gave up long ago thinking I would write the
great all-purpose program (GAPP) to end all programs. Once I got
through that phase, programming became a lot more fun. I *do* try to
write structured code to to maintain a little discipline in my life,
but I've never let it overwhelm me. 
... I have the world's best job -- I'm retired.
--- Blue Wave/386 v2.30
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