Dreaming in Code

Jumping Jehosephat - someone's written a book about it. You have no idea how disturbing it is to dream in code: a particularly stressful repetitive experience. Always, in my case at least, running through the coded statements of some pointless infinite loop, asking "what the heck is this doing?", unable to prevent its continued iteration. Language will vary depending on what you are working on - C, C++, assembler, microcode, hell-blasted SOUL for chrissakes, which none of you will have heard of (it isn't this one; it was dead before the web was invented) - as will the goal that you know it isn't realizing.

Surefire sign that you need a vacation; and a surefire sign that there's no damned way you can take one.

The blurb suggests the book is about the dark art of coding, rather than dreaming, per-se. And make no mistake - it is an art; an act of creation that no amount of schooling can imbue. Indeed, the very worst programmers I've dealt with have all had stellar Comp-Sci academic backgrounds. And the worst of their drivelings put my dreamscapades to shame.