guess this is the geek’/programmer in me coming out at the holiday times! If you do any programming work (or even create websites for others), this will probably resonate with you By the way, this has been around for a long time… I am not sure who originally wrote it and I get a chuckle from it each time that I read it around the holidays.
In a word it is Timeless
Twas the night before implementation and all through indonesia phone number data the house, not a program was working not even a browse. The programmers hung by their tubes in despair, with hopes that a miracle would soon be there. When out in the machine room there arose such a clatter.
I sprang from my desk to see what
was the matter. And what to my wondering eyes the text has advanced again by several positions. should appear, but a super programmer (with a six-pack of beer). His resume glowed with experience so rare, he turned out great code with a bit-pusher’s flair. More rapid than eagles, his programs they came, On update! on add! on inquiry! on delete! on batch jobs! on closing! on functions complete!
fingers nimble and lean, from weekends and nights bw lists in front of a screen. A wink of his eye, and a twitch of his head, soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, turning specs into code; then turned with a jerk; And laying his finger upon the “ENTER” key, the systems came up and worked perfectly. The updates updated; the deletes, they deleted; the inquiries inquired, and closings completed.
He tested each whistle, and tested each bell, with nary an abend, and all had gone well. The system was finished, the tests were concluded. The users’ last changes were even included. And the user exclaimed with a snarl and a taunt, “It’s just what I asked for, but not what I want!