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barrd
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Anyone else have favourite bits of code of which they're inordinately proud?
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Too bloomin' right ;)
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Back in '95 myself and a friend working for a London based company had been told by several companies that what we were proposing was "JUST NOT POSSIBLE". I won't go into the semantics and back then I was a complete novice but I listened to these supposed experts and said "nah, they're talking ****".
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Three months later we proved them all wrong - it took a *nix box, an Apple Mac and a NT server, and it was a gluing app that I wrote that connected all three to do the job that we needed. The Mac provided the security, the *nix (Slackware) box the connectivity and the NT box the background functionality to get the project off the ground using {pleeugh} VB.
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Apart from the VB everything else was written in perl (inc. the Mac using V.8.x and MacPerl). It was secure, robust and some elements are still running to this day.
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That was my proudest moment when several months later the same 'experts' from all the companies were in a room with us both and they all apologised and wanted to know how the hell we had done it...
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"Perl" was my reply :)
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