Re: Hal


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Re: Hal



Great reply! Couldn't have said it better.   Thank you, Tom

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> From: Bernard Domroy <bdomroy@IEPSNET.COM>
> To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
> Subject: Hal
> Date: Friday, August 01, 1997 6:59 AM
>
> OK, so you have this great program, Hal.  And it will allow users who are
> not great assembler programs to produce programs in assembler.  And
perhaps
> there will be some motivation for programmers to write real programs, not
> games, that have better performance than would be possible in Basic.
> Finally, we might have what appears to be a very good program development
> platform.
>
> But......  Your egos are are so enormous that you won't release it until
> you can have your silly AOL party.  I think this is a real indicator of
the
> maturity of the authors of this program.  Release the damn thing.  Don't
> e-mail it, put it up on Ti-calc or wherever.  At least people can start
> using it.
>
> Then, those who care, can come to your little AOL party when you have it,
> and you can have your moment of glory.  A truly mature individual
> understands that the real pride in writing a quality program comes from
> others using it rather than from a bunch of kids sitting around on some
IRC
> or in some Chat room giving the author the obligatory strokes.  Grow up
> already.
>
> domroy