Back in 1996 she thought maybe she needed a hobby. She was a housewife and we didn’t have any children yet. She said maybe she could do a game. At the time I was working in Microsoft C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes framework, building Windows apps. She had never programmed a language more challenging than Turbo Pascal.
When she asked how long it would take to even get started, I estimated about 18 months to learn C++ properly, another six months to learn Microsoft foundation classes. The six months after that to learn the windows API if she worked really hard at it. At the time I thought maybe there was a place in the Windows game market for a mini golf game.
She took less than a week to create a working, bug-free prototype, but then lost interest.
I hate people like that! Everything takes forever for me to learn.
Luckily she blessed me with a passel of pretty much bug-free and absolutely hilarious children, so I’m giving her a pass.