Subj : Not untrue (was: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?) To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : rem642b Date : Sat Aug 20 2005 02:53 am > From: > > I've never used any programming language commercially, except 2.5 weeks > > of Think C in 1992. > So all those stories about years of programming experience were > basically untrue ? Nope, where would you get such a silly idea? About half my work was paid by Stanford University: - develop software to be used within the university (data compression, XGP document layout, SL/PSL porting, processing images) - perform pure research (NMR relaxation, natural language understanding) - develop software to be tested in local high schools (CAI-calculus) None of that software was for commercial sale. About half my work was unpaid, just working on software that I considered of benefit to the world at large, or fun stuff, or teaching myself new stuff, plus one major open-source group project at communication protocols. Only 2.5 weeks was on for-sale commercial software: converting bitmap image into parameterizations of all the lineaments within it And 5 months enhancing copy-file utility and fixing bugs in COBOL compiler. .