Re: Curious
- Posted by fizzpopsoft Dec 29, 2014
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I think the following qualifies.. :)
a) I wrote a app to add missing functionality to a multi-million deal, without which my company's tender would not have made the shortlist - we won the tender.
b) A small app to generate mainframe JCL to do multifile/multivol tape copies via a windoze GUI. Sold to one customer for $3000, another customer ripped it off for free. Lesson learnt - don't trust customers, protect your work!
c) A bigger app - 358k of Euphoria source, to generate detailed billing spreadsheets for customers who have a large software deployment which is also complex.
How much is that worth? Difficult to say, but doing it manually used to take 3 days of working 12 hours daily and then the customer often said, 'No its wrong, do it again' because they didn't like the bottom line (bill).
Now the customers have (protected) copies of the app, they run it themselves and so do we, everyone happy. Competitors don't have my app, and the customers are still with us - any leverage you have, you should use!
IMHO My coding is not pretty, but it works and works well. I'd say that I was fortunate to be there when the opportunity came, I said I can fix this, and was able to satisfy the requirements. So the $$ is about seeing opportunity rather than about which language; that said, Euphoria is quick to write and debug - essential IMHO.
Regards, Alan
