Re: Design specifications, and/or lack thereof; was:RE: Release notes:term for bugs

Subject: Re: Design specifications, and/or lack thereof; was:RE: Release notes:term for bugs
From: Emily Berk <emily -at- armadillosoft -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 18:06:14 -0700


Ah, Grasshopper. But that was long ago in flush times. We weren't looking for work at that time. Work and more work and more work after that found us.

But now it is no more. That company, which was gigantic, decided to not pay my last invoice. Which was for three months of overtime work. And that project is no longer. Water long under the bridge, though.

--Emily

At 06:30 PM 7/7/02 -0400, Peter wrote:
>Emily Berk wrote:
>
>>
>> I asked if it would be possible at some point to unify the syntax and was told that the >parser had been altered so radically to accommodate the mess that it would require a total >re-write of the parser. And, since users had already been using these tags for a while, we >would still have to support all the tag formats for years afterward.
>
>
>In tough times, that sounds like a good annuity, so long as they are
>being paid for support. Sorta
>--
>Peter
>
>"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
>minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's
>longer than any hour. That's relativity,"
>- Einstein-

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