Result: wandered off elsewhere

• doc++ - javadoc but fast

  • dramatically improved flex grammer / feature-set
  • no maintainer interest – forked but pain to maintain

• GGI project – games interesting

  • H/W difficulties / no

• Wrote (toy) spreadsheet in Java

  • discouraged by nasty pre-swing printing model

• Mahjongg – a Gnome game

  • wrote a tile-placing algorithm to make solvable
  • E-mail reply with maintainer
  • Instant recognition / credit.

• Gnumeric – 1998 couple of months after gcc

  • Productive / committed ... into Gnome big-time.