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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!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: What a lovely dream I had last night! Date: 25 Dec 1996 00:21:57 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <59ps35$foi@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <59p5dg$5th@osprey.global.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.152 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33227 comp.unix.programmer:48120 In article <59p5dg$5th@osprey.global.co.za>, Henry <henry@global.co.za> writes: > 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! :-) > > 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 Yeah, that *would* be something, wouldn't it? Or maybe we (or the machine) will evolve to the point where we can just form a sort of "Vulcan Mind-Link (tm)" and dispense with all this mucking about with C and such like. Actually, though, my preferred form of reincarnation would be as a dolphin. Or maybe I *was* a dolphin in a past life. Anyway, they're definitely way cool, and it looks like they have so much *fun*. Yep, definitely got a hard-on for dolphins, me. :-) Conrad, who christened his machine "dolphin" when he installed FreeBSD and has a nifty pic of a group of dolphins on his X desktop (Hey, a little light-hearted diversion for the holidays, eh?) -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |