I'd say I was the most productive when it took me eight hours to write a seven line shell script. That replaced 2,650 lines of C. The previous programming tea

I'd say I was the most productive when it took me eight hours to write a seven line shell script. That replaced 2,650 lines of C. The previous programming team had written a data transfer program with its own implementation of ftp. I just used the one which was already on the computer. It took me a while because I had to read the Unix source code to find out if my program would work. In the days before Google, and even the World Wide Web, I used a combination of Gopher and WAIS to find a publically available copy. That was difficult as it had been released only to universities with a licence saying it must be kept hidden.