[CrackMonkey] [gkm@petting-zoo.net: Disappearing into the Code.]

[Nick Moffitt]

	Was anyone else here as dissappointed with "Close to the
Machine" as I was?  Great beginning, but it just petered out.

----- Forwarded message from glen mccready <gkm at petting-zoo.net> -----
Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev at sleepycat.com>
Forwarded-by: Don Whiteside <whiteside at tequilaresearch.com>

Joel and I started this round of debugging on Friday morning. Sometime
later, maybe Friday night, another programmer, Danny, came to work. I
suppose it must be Sunday by now because it's been a while since we've
seen my client's employees around the office. Along the way, at odd
times of day or night that have completely escaped us, we've ordered in
three meals of Chinese food, eaten six large pizzas, consumed several
beers, had innumerable bottles of fizzy water, and finished two entire
bottles of wine. It has occurred to me that if people really knew how
software got written, I'm not sure if they'd give their money to a bank
or get on an airplane ever again.
	-- "Disappearing into the Code" by Ellen Ullman 


----- End forwarded message -----

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