You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Start Doing Stuff Like: Cc -o A.out Foo.c

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Start Doing Stuff Like: Cc -o A.out Foo.c

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you start doing stuff like: cc -o a.out foo.c

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You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start doing stuff like THIS
emacs a.out (an even worse version of this is "cat >a....
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you don't care whether C or C++ is compiled or interpreted.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start dreaming code.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...after days with YACC, you start to parse your conversations.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...in non-computer related situation you start thinking that whatever you are doing, it could be done more easily in a shell script.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...the message `New mail in /usr/spool/mail/foo' becomes an NMI.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you try to ^Z out of Quattro.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you order on the phone from a catalog, and start to give the operator your email address.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start typing semi-colons at the end of sentences instead of full stop