8 Apr
2000
8 Apr
'00
12:06 a.m.
I've heard that, too. Does that mean that anyone
who writes a program to do
what he's seen another program do is making a copy? You're not even sure he
actually saw and read the source code. How many programmers do you know
who'd simply copy someone else's work in a case like this? Everybody wants
to leave his own mark.
Well personally I love hacking other peoples code, and that was my prefered
style at the time, find some code doing something similiar and "enhance"
it. Since then I learned all those good structured design type things, but
I find it funny that as I learn and adopt more of the object programming
model I return to my hacking roots.
Get the job done with a rev 0.1 hack, make your mark around rev 4.0 when
you do the rewrite to clean up the mess its grown to.
Apple was
working on a version of BASIC for the Macintosh that would
resemble VB today in the late 80s/early 90s. Microsoft got wind of it and
threatened to cut their license to Microsoft BASIC for the APPLE II (still
amoney maker at the time) if Apple actually released the product. Apple
towed the line and what do you know---Microsoft produces this very
innovative product called Visual Basic shortly thereafter, but for
Windows.