The day I started working on catal6.prg. Other generators in GenerAll were churning code like crazy. There were a bunch of elementary reports for PolC done, some routines for the AnaViz generated... the team in Szoftex was buzzing.
Now this AnaViz, that was something. A neat little app written for recording the analysi of water at a water mains laboratory in Paks (reads Poksh, this is hungarian). The main form had to be done mostly by hand, because the fields were... so, variable, to a degree. Namely, it depended on the analysis done on the current sample, more precisely on the analysi, so the set of results, i.e. set of fields, was different but always the same for a certain type of analysis. Which meant these analys can and should be configurable somewhere, by the user (or else they'd come pull our sleeves every time they add or remove something or buy a new analyzer). So when they enter results, just pick the analysis done, and get a list of fields - generated on the fly from the config. A real condiment.
I went there just a few times (I'd usually get the astra, ford was somehow Mihály's), and was finished in just a few visits, everyone happy everyone satisfied. Once even Ileš made me company, because they bought payroll too and that was his. Since he knew the terrain, he suggested we eat fish čorba at a place he knew. True, he said it's no good north of the border, and he was right, but then the cook swore the fish was caught upstream of the nuclear power plant, and it's still the best one within 50km... well okay. Was it bad, was not. Was it good, well almost. Was it memorable, not even close.
At some point I was left alone in the office. One PC, printer, couple of desks... nothing special. But this is the water mains, so it must have a tap and, well, not quite a washbasin, rather one of those crudely enameled tin jobs they use in vojska, like a kitchen sink without a cabinet. I was thirsty, the heating was wound up, I found glasses, took one, reached for the faucet... and on it there was a sediment of limestone sized like dog's head. Because this is the area of hard water. Ula always wiped glasses dry, because any droplet left will leave a white circle in a few minutes. That hard was the water. No wonder they needed a lab.
Two days later (actually day plus some, when something for PolC was generated at 1 in the morning), catal6.prg was already at 6.1, namely "GenerAll/Catal6 v6.1, , 1995-01-05 01:00:44". Looking at what else was there that night, there was a thing generated at 0:14, next around 0:30, and there's one at 2:30. I guess this is roughly the time when Joška and I slid into 2nd to 3rd shift, coming to work around noon, fucking around until lunch, then slowly start. We seriously got to work only around 17:00, when the office disperses. We had the keys, the alarm code, lived right across, we could stay as long as we wanted. Here, the last file for the night, fourth on fifth, is at 2:40, the next one was for AnaViz at 10:35.
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