A Day In The Life Of a Programmer
By Little John
6:00 PM Wake up.
6:30 PM Wake up.
7:00 PM Get up.
7:30 PM Wake up. Realize other life still exists in house. Mumble greetins to
family you have not seen in a month. Grab pot of coffee, 3 dozen Twinkies and
something green from the fridge and head back to computer.
8:00 PM Reload the file you have been working on for the last month. Just a
few more 'minor' adjustments and it will be done.
9:00 PM Disk Error! Start 2nd pack of cigarettes.
10:00 PM Cat finally makes an escape from under bed where it ran in fear after
rampage caused by disk error.
10:15 PM Someone yells to stop playing handball against wall. You switch to
bowling.
10:30 PM Back to work. Start 3rd pack of cigarettes.
10:45 PM Put out small fire caused by falling cigarette. Decide Bowling was
better.
11:00 PM Watch news. Try to decide if the anchor's hair is a wig or not.
11:30 PM Watch Johnny Carson.
1:00 AM Watch Letterman.
2:00 AM Watch Swaggart. Make guess on what he was doing in that motel room.
2:05 AM Get tired of watching Swaggart. Switch to old movie. Laugh at Reagan.
Decide Bonzo's Smarter.
2:45 AM Back to Programming.
3:00 AM CRASH! The 'de-bugged' version of your program just wiped out your
disk. Loud cursing starts.
4:00 AM Loud cursing ends. Minor damage. Replace disk, start again.
4:10 AM Test program. New bug.
4:20 AM Test program. New bug.
4:30 AM Test program. New bug.
5:00 AM Program works. Compile it.
5:15 AM Compiler crashes. Try again.
5:30 AM start 4th pack of cigarettes.
5:45 AM Look for utility disk.
6:10 AM Give up search for utility disk.
6:15 AM Compiler crashes. Start again.
6:30 AM Compiler done. Load and run. New bug.
6:40 AM Test program. New bug.
6:45 AM Re-Compile program.
7:00 AM DONE! Fully de-bugged program ready.
7:30 AM Great idea! Will add one little feature.
8:00 AM Test new mod. CRASH!
8:30 AM Fix bug. Test again. CRASH!
9:00 AM Quitting time. Will work on the program tomorrow.
And so ends another day in the life of a programmer.
By Little John
6:00 PM Wake up.
6:30 PM Wake up.
7:00 PM Get up.
7:30 PM Wake up. Realize other life still exists in house. Mumble greetins to
family you have not seen in a month. Grab pot of coffee, 3 dozen Twinkies and
something green from the fridge and head back to computer.
8:00 PM Reload the file you have been working on for the last month. Just a
few more 'minor' adjustments and it will be done.
9:00 PM Disk Error! Start 2nd pack of cigarettes.
10:00 PM Cat finally makes an escape from under bed where it ran in fear after
rampage caused by disk error.
10:15 PM Someone yells to stop playing handball against wall. You switch to
bowling.
10:30 PM Back to work. Start 3rd pack of cigarettes.
10:45 PM Put out small fire caused by falling cigarette. Decide Bowling was
better.
11:00 PM Watch news. Try to decide if the anchor's hair is a wig or not.
11:30 PM Watch Johnny Carson.
1:00 AM Watch Letterman.
2:00 AM Watch Swaggart. Make guess on what he was doing in that motel room.
2:05 AM Get tired of watching Swaggart. Switch to old movie. Laugh at Reagan.
Decide Bonzo's Smarter.
2:45 AM Back to Programming.
3:00 AM CRASH! The 'de-bugged' version of your program just wiped out your
disk. Loud cursing starts.
4:00 AM Loud cursing ends. Minor damage. Replace disk, start again.
4:10 AM Test program. New bug.
4:20 AM Test program. New bug.
4:30 AM Test program. New bug.
5:00 AM Program works. Compile it.
5:15 AM Compiler crashes. Try again.
5:30 AM start 4th pack of cigarettes.
5:45 AM Look for utility disk.
6:10 AM Give up search for utility disk.
6:15 AM Compiler crashes. Start again.
6:30 AM Compiler done. Load and run. New bug.
6:40 AM Test program. New bug.
6:45 AM Re-Compile program.
7:00 AM DONE! Fully de-bugged program ready.
7:30 AM Great idea! Will add one little feature.
8:00 AM Test new mod. CRASH!
8:30 AM Fix bug. Test again. CRASH!
9:00 AM Quitting time. Will work on the program tomorrow.
And so ends another day in the life of a programmer.
