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497.    SOAT language

To:  sam@rinkworks.com
Date:  Mon, 14 May 2007 22:16:13

You stated that SOAT allows you to keep several locations in one file.  You
referred to POAT (older version?) that I'm using where a file held only one
location.   I am totally going off deductions about SOAT.  It is a language
of coding, right?  I asked in my memo if you created the SOAT language.  You
created Rex, which is an *interpreter* of POAT or Smash, right? I bet I'm
going to get a link from you to a SOAT site, huh?

This email came from a regular visitor of RinkWorks; I apologize to that person for including it here, and also to anyone else I may make self-conscious about asking basic questions by including it. I must stress that it's not a "stupid" email by any stretch of the imagination. It came from a hungry mind, and that person has gone on to conquer the Smash programming language and create something very impressive and ambitious with it. I cannot possibly have greater respect for someone who starts with no programming experience at all and achieves something of professional quality with it. All the same, it IS amusing to look back and see the tangled confusion of ideas at the beginning of the learning curve, isn't it? I remind readers that a couple of the Computer Stupidities anecdotes are about me.