Retirement

[Jose Lerebours]

Enjoy your retirement, your wife, and the Arts!



On 10/24/19 9:56 PM, DELMONT NERONI via Filepro-list wrote:
> Now that I am finally fully retired, I will soon be removing myself from this mailing list, of which I have been a member for at least twenty-five years, maybe longer.
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> Before I do, I want to thank all the people on the list who have helped me over the years, especially Ken Brody, but many others as well.  The filepro community has had its share of internal squabbles over the years, but if I had a problem I could not solve, help was always there from a variety of sources.
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> Like many of you, I specialized in writing business applications in filepro, plus some manufacturing and financial apps, and I must say I have always been able to create a satisfactory product with it.  I consider it to be one of the best programming languages I have ever used, and I have used a lot of them.   I have had a long career in computer programming, which began in the very late sixties at IBM, where I wrote mainframe (360) assembler code and sent my programs to the computer room on punched cards.
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> Now, however, I plan to spend my remaining time on activities in the arts, which don't offer much in the way of remuneration, but which I find deeply satisfying.
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> My wife, after all, is an artist (http://www.janeneroni.com ), so a love of the arts runs in our family.  Some of you know that before I was a computer programmer, I was an opera singer.  I studied singing in New York City and performed with several small opera companies in the Hudson Valley.  Then I got married and started a family, so I had to get a real job, which I did with IBM.  Now I'm too old for a career as a singer, but I am still doing a lot of singing with local choruses, and will until my voice finally gives out. I'm also trying my hand as a writer.  We'll see how that goes.
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> I must say that, even with filepro, building big software applications is one of the toughest and frequently most thankless jobs I know of and required long days and many sleepless nights.  But it was always a thrill when everything finally worked! So, I wish all of you many such thrills as I ride off into the coding sunset!
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> Sincerely,
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> Del Neroni
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