Well well,

I sold my first Forth program a few days ago. Price $180. I thought
that it was worth atleast $500 to my employer. I'm thinking that
Microsoft or some C programmer would have charged $2000. Net result.
I loose my job. I'm so angry now that I am seriously considering
joining the IWW, (Industrial Workers of the World). That would be
quite a change from my time with the Libertarian Party. But the LP
does not represent me, so there.

It wasn't the most special of programs, or the greatest. It works on
the command line of Forth and does not use the GUI. All it does is to
take a CSV file from Turbolister and then strip the descriptions out
of the HTML, then it strips the rest of the info out and then slams it
into collumns for another CSV file that gets fed to a shopping cart
system. Not such a bad thing to have when you are selling upward of
4000 products and would eventually like to be able to deal with 10,000
products.

bummer.

Oh well, everyone told me that I would never make a single dime with
Forth. LOL

On Jul 26, 4:16 pm, Jason Damisch yahoo.com> wrote:

I wrote it in my spare time and he bought it right before he fired me,
in a nutshell but there are more details than that.

Well it hasn't made me happy, or done anything for my soul.

LOL

On Jul 27, 4:13 am, Jason Damisch yahoo.com> wrote:
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Forget capitalism, now you have moved into consultism.

Your code will sit there, happily ploughing through the piles of CSV.
The number goes up and its processing 10,000 products a day.

Then something changes and it will break. There losing time and time
is money, this is when they discover the true value of your work.
They need somebody to fix the code. There aren't a great number of
Forth programmers available, so they'll have to come to you for a fix.

Thats when you get to charge $180 dollars per hour. Possibly more.

Just make sure you come in closer that the $2000 they'll have to pay
somebody else to rewrite from scratch :)

On 7/26/07 11:13 PM, in article
1185505984.178584.62330@g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com, "Jason Damisch"
yahoo.com> wrote:

On Jul 26, 11:13 pm, Jason Damisch yahoo.com> wrote:

Yes, the devil is in the details...

Not to sound like a jerk, but I was not aware that capitalism was ever
claimed to be good for the soul or to make you happy. I thought it
was just a way to put food on the table and provide the means of
pursuing happiness... whether you achieve happiness depends on how you
go about the pursuit and what your goals are.

So what are (were) your goals in pursuing happiness? Maybe you had
the wrong goals to be good for your soul?

On Jul 29, 9:57 am, rickman gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:08:10 -0700, David Smith
gmail.com> wrote:

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for
the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
(John Maynard Keynes)

Stephen

Stephen Pelc wrote:

Now there's a quote fit for a sig!

Jerry

On Jul 29, 1:09 pm, Jason Damisch yahoo.com> wrote: