I got this from him a number of years ago: And thank you for the appreciation of AE! I really worked on that program, determined to get the best of the Pick and Prime Information editors together in one place, plus some innovations of my own, such as the EditValues (EV) command. UniData was just getting started and I wrote the program without pay, on speculation, asking for generous payment if UniData succeeded. They succeeded and honored the agreement. David Brunel proved himself to be a man of unusually high integrity.
Leif Smith I was the author of AE "back when" (started when UniData was Ming Yue, David Brunel, and 5 chinese programmers in a basement in a home in Aurora, Colorado. I'm out of the MV programming business now and expected that AE would have long ago been completely supplanted by more powerful products. By the way, I never was a UniData employee, just a free-lance programmer playing a wild card. The whole deal was a handshake and a few notes on scraps of paper. -----Original Message----- From: McGowan, Ian Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 6:26 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] UniVerse Dictionary question http://www.linkedin.com/in/leifsmith - an interesting guy. Not sure if anyone remembers the old comp.databases.pick days, but Leif reminds me of Henry Eggers - I only understood 10% of what he said, but it was always interesting. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin King Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 5:02 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] UniVerse Dictionary question AE is the brainchild of one Leif Smith as I recall. Haven't seen him in years, but he used to stomp around here in Denver. On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:53 PM, McGowan, Ian wrote: > It's well worth spending some time reading the AE help pages. One of > my favorites is "help +" which ends with the gem "We could go on and > on about this, but you probably get it." I'm a huge fan of AE, even > though I spend most of my programming time inside a visual editor (I > like joe [ http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/], not to start a > religious debate). I don't use AE prestores with the wild abandon of > my misspent youth, but they're still a handy thing to know. If anyone > knows the author of AE, let me know - I owe him or her several drinks... [snip] _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
