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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sprintlink.co.za!osprey.global.co.za!news From: Henry <henry@global.co.za> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: What a lovely dream I had last night! Date: 24 Dec 1996 17:54:56 GMT Organization: Global Internet Access Lines: 27 Message-ID: <59p5dg$5th@osprey.global.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: mdm-po6.jhb168-anx1.net.global.co.za Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33153 comp.unix.programmer:48080 conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes: > > Anyone who's ever grappled with an ornery port can surely relate: > > I dreamed I was sitting in front of my computer watching a build > in progress of a very large system. I was filled with wonder and > joy at the fact that the compiler issued not a single warning or > error. Just line after line of beautiful make commands executing > flawlessly, scrolling smoothly by. > > Ah, it was heaven! :-) > > -- > Conrad Sabatier | > conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. > http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads | > I've always maintained that, oneday, when I'm big 'n strong, after I've been reincarnated a coupla million times; you know, gone through the ol' purification and *mind* growth thing, then I'll write a ten-thousand line program as fast as I can type it and the compiler won't say boo or bah. Simply, "Thank-you, oh master of the Code Writers Guild. Shall I proceed with the link?"... sigh henry@global.co.za