Painfully slowly I am homing in on the final fixes of my import tool (for importing Maya ASCII format into my proprietary ditto). I'm probably about four calendar months into the project (to be truthful, I probably spend a month and a half re-editing some old programming books of mine).
I've never before had such flawed understanding of what it would take to reverse-engineer a text format. This time my time estimation gut-feeling was off by about 100 %. I find it utterly embarrasing - even though I'm solo on this project so far.
Stubborn as I am, trial-and-epic-fail is the only way I learn. At least I'll never make this mistake any time soon!
