Hi Guido:
I vividly remember our daily discussions about structuring classes, which
sometimes could take hours. Meanwhile, the office where this took place does
not exist anymore. On the next day, you had implemented our plan and we had to
discuss again because some things did not work the way we had thought. This
way we iterated towards a structure that managed to live for 25 years.
Yes, good times! My personal life was not happy at the time, and after work I
would usually go home, sleep for an hour, then work till 3 or 4am, and then
take the bike to work in time for lunch. Work was my way to forget a lot of
things during that year, and a lot of code was written. It was productive!
I remember how we fought about the ordering of vertices in quadrilaterals and
how we later had to go through the painful process of re-engineering this part
in order to eliminate specializations with respect to dimensions.
Oh right, I forgot about that. What a disaster. It wasn't the only mistake we
made, but maybe the one that required the most work to fix...
Overall, however, I do think we came up with designs that have proved to be
surprisingly successful in the long run!
Best
Wolfgang
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