David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
> Hi everyone.  David (Kirk) Buck here.  I'm the original author of
> DKBTrace and POV-Ray.
>

So your that SOB that start this all:)

> It's now been about 40 years since I wrote DKBTrace.  It seems like
> forever ago, but I can still remember the thrill of generating (very
> slowly) 3D images of scenes I modeled with a text file using software I
> wrote myself.
>

Oh! I remember those days! Late night programing. Waking up early the next day
and going at it again. There is nothing like the feeling of coming with an idea
and exspanding it into working code.

>
> I check this forum periodically, but mostly I just lurk to be honest and
> check out what people are doing.  I was about 24 years old when I first
> wrote DKBTrace. I'll soon be turning 64 years old and I'm aiming at
> retiring soon.
>

Retiring! What's that? All the people I know said they worked harder after that
that, work you said.(retiring) I don't know how many times I've heard "I wish I
could go to work to get some rest!"


> I've always been interested in spreading the joy of programming and
> using computers in a creative way.  DKBTrace was one of many projects
> I've worked on simply for the joy of coding.  Interestingly, when I
> released DKBTrace, I thought I was done with it and was releasing it to
> allow others to have fun as well.  It seems that the fun has been
> continuing for the past 40 years.
>

Well, I have a hell of lot of fun with POV and I only have known it for 30 year
plus years. I enjoyed exploring POV. It has it own view of the world I like
playing in it.

> I'm going to commit to checking this newsgroup more frequently for a
> while and responding to posts.  If you have any questions or comments
> I'll try to respond as quickly as I can.
>
> David Buck

Nice to have you back! Looking forward to your insights.

Have Fun!

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