[TUHS] On computerese

[Steve Nickolas]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024, Clem Cole wrote:

> Yes, programming is often better when it's a more social enterprise. It's
> funny. I liked having an office for times when I wanted to think, but when
> I was batting an interesting issue or trying to remember something pretty
> obscure, the terminal room was the best. I also began to slowly realize my
> own knowledge base was improving when I was the one answering the question
> when someone asked, " Hey, does anybody have a good way to ..."

I notice I'm more motivated to work on a program when I'm not alone 
slogging through it.

Of course a lot of my projects tend to fall into the "who cares?" 
category.  Like trying to backport MS-DOS 6.2 functionality to the 
open-source 4, or create an alternate-universe OS where it was System V 
rather than BSD that got the Theseus treatment...

-uso.