Throwback to my first job in life!!!
He has lived all over the country – East Coast, West Coast, Arizona, Midwest… and went back to India a couple of times. But finally, I was able to nail him down – of all places, in Appleton, Wisconsin! The first time I met Qazi was in 1991 in Mumbai when I joined my first job. I think we both joined on the same day. In fact, we started working in the same project.
The way he used to crack jokes (mostly “groaners” or what my daughters call – “Dad Jokes”) and imitate others was hilarious. Clearly the clown prince of our project, he used to keep us regaled most of the days. He even started our own regular journal for the project team – “Dungeon Times”. (We used to work in the lowest floor in the building).
He has not changed much (I saw him for the first time after nearly 25 years). The spontaneous impressions he did of our old project mates had me rolling on the floor in Starbucks last week. And they brought back a lot of memories from that project where I spent about a couple of years.
Since I was never good at coding, I moved away from it eventually. Qazi stayed on the technology side. That led to some good discussions on the evolution of technology – or rather the evolution of programming over the last forty years. More importantly, where it is headed in the future. Thoroughly enjoyed the discussion!
Thank you Qazi for making some time for me in the middle of the day. Would love to continue with our discussions…
Thanks Rajib! Very nice of you to drive down to Appleton, in between your meetings.
Rajib, I don’t agree with your one statement about you not being a good coderf – you were a pretty good coder as I recall from CPC project in 1991. I remember the pre-processing code that you wrote which , if my memory serves me right, injected some code in “C” files from “.h” files.
I second that. I think it was called “mp” – macro processor.
ya’ll could be twins…
Musaddique Qazi I can see that … “Men in Black”….
Musaddique Qazi I can see that … “Men in Black”….
Wow! I did not know he was the creator of dungeon times. Three cheers!
Rajib – Not good at coding??? I recall you were a perfectionist at IIMA in ensuring quality code, speed at which you completed coding any assignment, and most importantly your “finicky” approach to indentation and nomenclature!!
And do you know who created the Dungeon?
That’s You!!
There was something about COSL, right? We had such fun while working very hard. In FASTER, those of us who worked at night used to leave messages for the day team in the form of poems. The last 30 minutes before we left were spent composing this missive. Ravi Apte, you created a magical place for us to start our careers in :).
One din bade dekhe bhalo laglo
None ache Mash I k ASA Sol e