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I'm 71, I wrote a best-seller in the early 1980s (Apple Writer for the Apple ][), I still code regularly but not for income, so my circumstances might not be wh
by lutusp 9y ago
I'm 71, I wrote a best-seller in the early 1980s (Apple Writer for the Apple ][), I still code regularly but not for income, so my circumstances might not be what the article focuses on. I write a lot of Python, JavaScript, some Java, I have a number of Android apps listed at the Google Play store -- all of them free, no ads (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Paul+Lutus&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Paul+Lutus&h...).
Why do I still program? Because I like programming. I never experienced serious burnout, probably because I didn't have to program for anyone else -- I was always my own boss.
Apropos the article's topic, I often visit StackOverflow but I never post anything there, I only read the inquiries of others, which invariably provide the information I need. This practice might make people like me essentially invisible.
- eej71 9y agoApple Writer was the best! Fond memories of it.
- aventuri 9y agoPaul Lutus, you a mith of my Apple ][ times. cant believe (and SO happy..) you online!! IIRC you were programming in a bungalow out of nowhere at that time.. right? me, 50 yo, still coding embedded sw..
- lutusp 9y ago> IIRC you were programming in a bungalow out of nowhere at that time.. right? Yep, that be me: http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programming.php http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
- mythrwy 9y agoThat's the best thing I've read all week!
- aventuri 9y agoreally, you made my day^W week!! honored to be chatting with you, really. BTW it's amazing this "virtual gathering" happening online in 2017. who could have been thinking, 30 years ago, this to be possible this way, so smoothly.. can't imagine where we are headed in the next 30..
- pdxpatzer 9y agoDitto! Could not have said it better. me, 51yo, system administrator. Grew up marvelling at Apple Writer knowing that a guy wrote it in a cabin in the woods. Sir, you were (and still are) a great inspiration !
- phodo 9y agoWow how cool. I used your software on my Apple //c and pretty much wrote my entire middle school and most high school reports on it. In fact, when I switched to word perfect I longed for apple writer. Thanks for making it.
- hubbins 9y agoI used Apple World for doing some graphics work in around 1982? Great stuff. 1MHz number crunching FTW. Age 50 and writing C# .NET Core web services.