lookin' good

[Amanda Lee]

Yup,

back in the 70's when I was in college at the University of West Florida,
Pensacola, FL,  (yeah! some of us did live back
then!), we only got one turn around per day for our programming
assignments.  While taking an IBM 360 Assembler Language course, I often
would wake-up in the middle of the night with the horrific! realization
that o (explitive! ! ! ! ! !) I didn't code that right and it crashed!
Believe me! there was no guarantee that the next 24 hours would bring
peace! love 'n happiness!  After awhile some of us talked the operators
into allowing us to run our own partition so we could work from about
midnight to 3A.M. so we could get perhaps a few more turn arounds per day.

Amanda Lee



On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Scott:
>
> I can't tell you how often this has worked for me. Particularly, on a
> large programming project many many years ago, it actually became a
> reliable pattern for me. I would find myself stuck sometime late in the
> evening--usually around midnight. I just couldn't figure what was wrong. I
> learned to go to sleep.
>
> Sure enough. Somewhere around maybe 4, maybe 5, I'd jump out of bed having
> awakened with a start. I actually dreamed the solution. Over and over
> again, time after time, I'd run to the computer and make the change.
> Bingo! Everything worked. And, then, it was on to the next problem, and on
> to the next point of frustration and confusion, etc., etc., etc.
>
> PS: Lest you think I lived on 4 hours sleep, that's approximately correct.
> But these were pgrogramming jags of one to three weeks--with weeks off
> inbetween. Meanwhile, I would also take a nap of around half an hour
> somewhere early to mid afternoon. It's the nap that actually kept me going
> on this kind of crazy schedule.
>
> Ah, the days of being free and fancy loose to just write, write, write.
>
>
> --
>
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