Re: If "rigid rules" are the wrong way...

From	"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: If "rigid rules" are the wrong way...
Date	2012-06-09 12:35 +0100
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"Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> wrote in message 
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> But, FWIW, I'll note that an old friend of mine is an author (published, 
> even won a minor award), and we have often been surprised at how many 
> similarities there are between the process of conceiving, writing, and 
> revising a novel and the various phases of programming.

That's true, especially as a self-employed programmer as I was. You spend a 
lonely year or two writing, earning little, then get clobbered with tax when 
you start making sales.

However, while authors in the UK receive special tax treatment in the UK 
because of this, that doesn't yet extend to software writers..

-- 
Bartc

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