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> It was one of the most rewarding times of my life, work wise. Did you feel this way in the moment, or did you realize it when looking back?
by carlgreene 4y ago
> It was one of the most rewarding times of my life, work wise.
Did you feel this way in the moment, or did you realize it when looking back?
- criddell 4y agoNot the person you replied to, but I definitely felt that way in the moment. My success and enjoyment writing Clipper (a dBase III compiler) and Turbo Pascal applications for local businesses while I was in high school is the reason I went on to get a computer science degree at university.
- LastTrain 4y agoAlso not the person you replied to, but yes, in the moment. The feeling was that I couldn't believe someone would pay me for that.
- mikewarot 4y agoI was standing outside the gates of Crawford Generating Station, when I realized that no matter what was wrong, when I was done with my visit, they were going to be happy. It was that moment of self actualization that doesn't often come around. Looking back in retrospect I see how dead nuts simple everything was back then, and how much more productive a programmer could be, even with the slow as snot hardware, and without GIT. Programming has gone far downhill since then, as we try to push everything through the internet to an interface we don't control. Back then, you knew your display routines would work, and exactly how things would be seen.