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[isthisthingon]

It's amazing what you find when digging through files in a proactive approach to tax preparation, a week before the deadline.  This is the brochure for my first C++ app.  I co-authored it with perks in 1990.  In an attempt to bail out a company that had made promises they could no longer keep after losing their chief engineer, we were literally provided with an apartment, a fridge that kept filling up with food and about two months to build it.

The target OS


The result of Jolt Cola, pizza and dash of peanut butter crank:

[nutballs]

Epic

[perkiset]

WOW HOLY SHIT! Awesome ITTO, haven't seen that for, well, almost 20 years!

Incredible find. I remember the afternoon that we promised the packaged and then found out about the heroin problem. Drank myself silly trying to figure out how we'd pull that off. As I remember, we hit our first deadline, the prototype, by literally learning the language as we coded the app in 30 days.

Those were inteesting times

Great find man, thanks for the memory 

[isthisthingon]

>by literally learning the language as we coded the app in 30 days.

That's right.  Month two began to feel rather extreme and the once unappetizing microwave pizzas became downright evil.  I don't even think the mini-microwave had a door    (this is when the story spirals into unnecessary lies, like the inside of my brain was literally cooking while I learned C++). 

But having survived the Pritikin diet as a child, let's just say it could be worse.   

We were fine with C at that point.  But for all I knew; inheritance was for taxing, polymorphism sounded like an incurable disease, overloading an operator was giving an 11 hour shift to a truck driver, and encapsulation was how I distributed fine synthetics to friends 

It would be a few years before my brain got OOed.