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Flashback to the early 1990s, when this pilot fish's first job out of college is at a small software company that wants to move beyond the mainframe market.
"The company had an accounting and distribution software package written in Cobol, but had hired me and another person to rewrite it in a 4GL," says fish.
"We wrote it, and the company sold the new package and started installing it on Unix servers."
This being a small vendor, fish is also onsite for some of the installs, including one customer that has been running the 4GL version in parallel with their old accounting software, but is now ready to go live with fish's code.
And in the course of the installation, for some reason fish manages to issue the Unix "rm *" command and erase every file from the directory containing the databases.
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