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Entered by slandis on Sun Apr 2 15:12:09 UTC 1995:

        Crashes:
        In front of a  machine I sit-
        Bathed id in the screen's incadescent glow,
        What I am worried about is the program's flow-
        Doubting I will ever get that far.

        Compiling takes forever,
        It's Symantece's fault, not mine.
        All the unnecessary loaded libraries-
        I must need help from the divine.

        If I'm lucky it hitts the fgets-
        Before the program decides to bomb.
        Somewhere I made apointer mistake was made,
        It takes great effort for me to keep my calm.

        I get an annoying icon,
        Because the machine is a Mac-
        A bomb and a restart,,
        I want to program, I don't need this flack!

        And I cannot press enter, 
        The button must be pressed with the mouse,
        Control-Alt-Delet won't save me,
        Because once again, this is a Mac.

        I press the button, and then wait an hour-
        The machine is an old SE-
        And the operating system further decreases its' power,
        All I can do is sit and wait there.

        Finally, I am back at the Icon's
        Attempting to enter Think C.
        Suddenly, all the info on the disk is missing,
        And I must starrt all over.

        The cycle starts all over again...

        Well, I don't know how many of you here are programmers, but I am sure
you can identify with these problems.

3 responses total.

#1 of 3 by abchan on Sun Apr 2 15:48:55 1995:

Yep, I know *exactly* what you mean.  
<abchan realizes she must get off grex and do her CS program>

#2 of 3 by odye on Mon Apr 3 00:00:47 1995:

we most certainly can.... good poem...

#3 of 3 by slandis on Sat Apr 8 18:40:21 1995:

        Well, the teacher seems to have the same opinion of the program I do,
so I went on to CComputer Science with Pascal.

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