25-VI-1998.

Wrote this on UA:

From my point of view, OOP solves many things, and the shortcomings are the multitude of properties you have to take care about, and the need to make your code land on its feet, no matter where it's called from. You don't control the program flow anymore; you write reactions to user's clicks & kicks. But then, it's not the OOP, it's event-driven paradigm. Lots of things which worked in FP, but were essentially written quickn'dirty, won't work anymore simply because the programs/methods don't necessarily execute in the same order. It takes more and more planning, and less coding. The trouble is we use the same computers for planning, so there's no rest for our eyes (unless you go out on the street and see few dozen pairs of reasons for walking around).

The big dance around opening the first Mc in the city. It was kind of a prestigious thing, and there was political pressure to get it open asap. The politics was coming, as far as I remember, from some guys from JUL, Mira's quasi communist party, and the trouble began when they submitted the request for inspection, (... 369 words...) Vlastimir did. He was always willing to avoid making a political issue, except when someone would be in his way. He'd sign anything if bribe was good enough or if there was a wink from above that it should be signed. Often he'd just offer to sign with no visible gain, just to be remembered among higher echelons as useful.

I've been to this Mc just once, some time in december, where I was supposed to meet Pali and Brlja. Didn't order anything, they came within ten minutes.

It closed in 2002. because of low demand. There was a posh layer of richer kids who'd go there for the happy meal (nobody cared how stupid that sounded), whatever that was, because they'd get a tiny chinese toy with it, and of some teenagers who'd think it was desirable to be seen there. The novelty soon wore out, and the only sign that there is a Mc in the city was a certain amount of discarded styrofoam vessels around the main street and square. For about half the money, you could get a very good burger (actually, a pljeskavica, much better, looks the same from a distance) at Cvele's. Cvele was once a professor in MPSŠC, some metallurgy subject, but decided that charcoal pays better than chalk, so he opened a kiosk 30m away... and he was there first, since, I'd say, 1984. And he lasted beyond 2005, until the spot between the two buildings was finally built on.


Mentions: 03-VIII-2005., Goran Staković (Brlja), MPSŠC, Pali Bodor, UbiquAgora (UA), Vlastimir Uvalić, in serbian