You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Start Doing Stuff Like THIS

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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.out" and then start typing in
your code. It hits rock bottom when a.out runs on the first attempt.)

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 dreaming code.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start typing semi-colons at the end of sentences instead of full stop
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... ...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 complain in the supermarket about your change and find out you computed it in hex.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you stop by the grocery store on your way home, and write your check out in hex.
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... ...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... ...you Start Doing Stuff Like THIS

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