You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...in A Dream, You Are Walking Down A Path (using PostScript's Pathforall) And Get Woken Up By A Closepath.

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...in a dream, you are walking down a path (using PostScript's pathforall)
and get woken up by a closepath.

You know you've been hacking too long when... ...more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...the executive who tells you that he read in PC week magazine that setting up a LAN in a multi-vendor environment using DECNET was easy and asks you to explain why it's taken you over a week to get the client/server applications in a "production mode.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wake up at 3
00am from a nightmare, and realize the reason for i...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you send email to somebody who's three terminals down the lab.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you dream you have to write device drivers for your refrigerator, washing machine, and other major household appliances before you can use them.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you've been low-level debugging ethernets for a week and you see two people at a table trying to pick up the same jar of butter and you directly wonder if they are using the correct CSMA/CD algorithm to avoid a re-collision.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you ask someone if they'd like to go get some "TeX-MeX" food.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you begin to think in nested IF-THEN-ELSE clauses that would make a bureaucrat get lost.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you go to the movies and it takes 5 minutes to get used to the flicker.

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...in A Dream, You Are Walking Down A Path (using PostScript's Pathforall) And Get Woken Up By A Closepath.

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