Simple problems, simple solutions, great joy
I’ve been coding for many, many years. I started when I was 13, and that is decades ago. Software development was different back then; programs ran on a single PC, claiming it completely, with text based interfaces (windows were drawn with characters), and maybe, just maybe, there was a shared storage, because some PC had it’s drive shared.
It was also the time when there were not many existing software systems. You had WordPerfect (no WYSIWYG), I remember some kind of simple spreadsheet, and basic bookkeeping software. But that was about it. The world, and all the potential software had, was wide open.
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So in the years that followed I wrote many systems. Small ones, to solve small but real problems; an address register for myself, a CRM tool for the local gym, a similar one for the dance school. What a time! It was not much work, especially after MSAcesss was introduced, you got a lot of functionality for the amount of effort you had put in.
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