Gonzo Programming If you haven’t spent at least a month working on the same program — working 16 hours a day, dreaming about it during the remaining 8 hours of restless sleep, working several nights straight through trying to eliminate that “one last bug” from the program — then you haven’t really written a complicated computer program. And you may not have the sense that there is something exhilarating about programming. — Edward Yourdon This lusty tribute to programming machismo is pure B.S. and an almost certain recipe for failure. Those all-night programming stints make you feel like the
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