On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:54:53 -0000, Ian Robinson <ianr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ian here, him of Karma fame ;-). Still fire up my acorns, mostly for
code
> dev as StrongEd is still such a good editor.
> Been living in Norway for almost ten years and worked with Guttorm Vik
of
> StrongEd fame early on.
> I still get entusiastic conversations on the Karma front from Sveinung
> when
> I see him, which is often a bit strange and hard work after such a long
> time, but also kinda fun. Funny, the world has moved on so much since
> those
> heady days, but still there are aspects and concepts that have never
been
> repeated. If I had 20 million of a reasonable currency, it would still
> be a
> relevent project to bring up to date. I have thought often about it, and
> about ****ting the CASE tool Rick and I made to hold all the data, really
> killer design tool back then, and still is I think.
> It is now a long time since Rick died. He is often in my thoughts of
> course
> because that was such a special time, and his widow is still a great and
> precious friend.
> If anyone wishes to talk, discuss, the project is still easily brought
to
> the forefront of my mind. Like I say, just popped in to say hi.
> Lots has happened since to us all, in code, I've covered a lot of C,
> Oracle
> (PL/SQL) and now mobile phone code ( very interesting ).
> Take care all and keep the acorn flag alive.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian.
> --
> Ian David Robinson
>
>
Good to see you're keeping busy! You should've popped in a few months back
- there was a brief discussion about how much we would pay for a version
of Karma :-)
And fifteen years after buying the Flight Trainer, I managed to finish it
with a little help from this group (now THAT's value for money!)
Mark
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