H This was an actual posting at MIT for a job oppurtunity.  (I removed theG phone numbers and address, but left the poster's name since he deserves  the credit for this.)       C You are a great C/UNIX hacker, but you're ashamed to admit that you D still use 1960's-era software development tools here in the Mecca ofD super-genius computer science.  Your devotion to a subset of MULTICSB may ear you jeers on the 7th floor, but it can also earn you up to3 $10,000 and a free trip to Paris on September 14th.    E I've got a pile (70,000 lines that compiles to 0.75 Mbytes) of C code @ written by some university weenies in Buffalo.  It constitutes a@ fairly winning 3D modelling system for designers and architects.- There is even a comprehensive luser's manual.    > A mysterious person in Switzerland wants to flog this softwareA worldwide.  Before it can be sold to millions of adoring fans, it F needs to be polished up, i.e. fixed and extended.  In particular, someE guys in Paris want to look at the thing work on September 14th before   parting with some serious money.   B Your task is to work 80 hours/week between now and September 14th.E You'll have a Sun 3 or 4 located in a scenic Kendall Square warehouse > and all the Vivarin you can Stomach.  You might actually learnD something about solid modelling and CAE systems.  In particular, the7 system seems to have a megawinning redisplay algorithm.    < After you win totally on this hell-bent crusade to charm the= Parisians, there's a chance for consulting during the term at  outrageous industry rates.   E Why am I, Philip Greenspun, famous nerd and 200 lb. guzzler of French  pastry, not doing this myself?   ? For openers, the worst week of my life was spent learning C and E programming an 8051 ($2 washing machine controller) to talk to an IBM E PC.  After ten years hacking Lisp Machines, God had finally sent me a ' machine commensurate with my abilities.    ? However, the main reason is that I am busy being president of a D startup company.  Bankrupting a business is not as easy as it looks.C Corporations exhibit a propensity for mediocrity that inhibits true E success or failure.  Alas, I'll be listening to creditors threaten to ? "punch [my] f...king face in" (yes, that's a quote) rather than + munching bonbons with friendly Frenchwomen.    9 If you are interested, immediately call me at [] or FAX a ' resume to [].  You can mail a resume to     Philip Greenspun	 Head Pimp  [...]    