Programmer Symptoms
By Philip Bennefall
You know you're a true programmer when:
* Your first memory is an empty page.
* You measure your life accomplishments as a stack size.
* You answer the phone with a pointer address.
* You try to diagnose your best friends illness with GDB.
* You keep track of your social engagements in a linked list.
* You suggest sex to your girlfriend by asking if you may enter her critical section.
* You advise her of the possibility that this action may result in a stack overflow.
* When it does, you are certain that forking is the only logical conclusion.
* You finally propose to her in assembly language.
* You attempt to convince others that the universe is like a binary tree.
* You tell people in public places that they're all derived from a base class of apes.
* You consider your enemies to be corrupt heaps.
* You tell strangers not to come into your namespace.
* You remember the names of your friends as std::strings.
* You blame your incremental forgetfulness on memory leaks and race conditions.
* You are reading this list, noticing that it has 16 items.