Mon 2003-06-09 08:09, Wes Garland (1:106/2000) wrote to Andrew Clarke:

 >> I was going to add that I'm quite surprised he still remembers any of
 >> this after so long!

 WG> You've never met Scott, have you?

Has he been to Australia?  :-)

I did meet David Nugent a couple of times (just socially) in about 1996.  I
believe he worked on parts of Maximus (don't know which).  He also wrote a
number of other FidoNet programs, notably InspectA and NLMaint.  InspectA
was a file manager (although I still prefer XTree), but was mainly useful
for reading (and modifying, to the extent of being able to delete messages
from) FidoNet Type 2 .PKTs.  David was considerably older than me at the
time, and presumably still is.  He was quite experienced with C++ (whereas
I only really started to get into C++ properly about a year or so ago).

 WG> The guy is one sharp cookie. Did you know he wrote Maximus in *high
 WG> school*? I was coding professionally for a number of years before my
 WG> code was that good.  

If it were really that good you wouldn't have so much trouble porting it.  ;-)

The word "prolific" comes to mind when I think about individuals
writing large projects (eg. Maximus, or GoldED) almost singlehandedly.  I
tend to get a bit sidetracked when compile times get too long.  ;-)

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