Re: [ATM] COG of mirror - was astigmatism as seen via ronchi?

[waldo kitty <wkitty42@alltel.net>]

Jim Burrows wrote:
> At 2008-03-05 14:40 +0100, Nils Olof Carlin wrote:
> 
>> Knowing Jim, I'd
>> trust his maths without understanding it - Jim, I know you're there, how
>> *did* you do it????
> 
> I don't even remember doing it <sob> - just like when I dig deeply 
> into the computer hard drive, or, even worse, going through the pile 
> of  backup CDs to find the source code for a long-gone program - the 
> question soon becomes what was that guy DOING?

:lol: heck, i do that now ;) want one of my "been there, done that" t-shirts? 
i've a couple of hundred of them :P

i'm an old school "think-coder"... that's kinda like a "think-typist"... i write 
what i think as i go... no time for flowcharts and the like... need a routine to 
do this, go whip it up and then come back and use it... i've tried the 
flow-chart stuff before and ended up doing the code in the chart :? :lol:

i can't stop in the middle of a coding project and then come back to it... i'll 
have lost that train of thought and the path thru the forest... that has, 
actually, caused me to have to rip out many hundreds of lines of code and start 
over to get back into the swing and flow of the data travel thru the code... why 
rip it out and start over? because i was unable to _see_, _feel_ and _live_ the 
code and flow and "sense" why something was done the way it was...

when i go digging back thru old source code now... oh man! it ain't spaghetti 
code but there sure are a lot of "WTF" sections that, in many cases, suddenly 
slap me with one of those "V8 heel of the hand to the forehead" OH! realizations ;)

now... i'm gonna go back to grinding out this chunk of clear stuff that everyone 
calls "glass" and hope that i can make a nice mirror out of it one of these days ;)

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