#include stdio.h
"HASH INCLUDE S-T-D-I-O-DOT-H," said Prof. Virupaksha. I remember thinking to myself, if on reaching home my mother asked me what I learnt in college, and if I had repeated "HASH INCLUDE S-T-D-I-O-DOT-H", she would have slapped me thinkingI was saying a bad word! (though sometimes when I'm angry, I do mutter it at people...."HASH INCLUDE S-T-D-I-O DOT H YOU!!!"). Thus started my introduction to software programming....and my life long aversion to it.
By qualification I'm supposed to be an engineer who majored in computer science. By ability, I'm niether. I can't fix an engine and I'm not smarter than a 5th grader when it comes to computers. How I've survived 5 and 1/2 years as a so called "software engineer" amazes me. ....or rather scares me! The world looks at us for software and if engineers like me are providing their needs, god help us all. To give you an idea...I work on aerospace software ..and I refuse to fly....you get the hint.
It never ceases to amaze me that we put so much trust in dumb people to make an even dumber machine called the computer do the most complex of tasks. If anyone on earth does not believe in God, they should start becuase it's a freaking miracle that these things actually work.
But I shouldn't be so harsh on computers. After all it's given me the most enjoyable form of employment.I mean where else would I be able to pretend to be coding some serious hi-tech-answer-to-every-problem-mankind-has type of program, while I'm really writing on these stupid blogs of mine?
O oh!..I need to stop now. My boss is coming my way and pretty soon he's going to be facing my screen. I better put up some window that looks like work. Bloody HASH INLCUDE S-T-D-I-O DOT H!!
By qualification I'm supposed to be an engineer who majored in computer science. By ability, I'm niether. I can't fix an engine and I'm not smarter than a 5th grader when it comes to computers. How I've survived 5 and 1/2 years as a so called "software engineer" amazes me. ....or rather scares me! The world looks at us for software and if engineers like me are providing their needs, god help us all. To give you an idea...I work on aerospace software ..and I refuse to fly....you get the hint.
It never ceases to amaze me that we put so much trust in dumb people to make an even dumber machine called the computer do the most complex of tasks. If anyone on earth does not believe in God, they should start becuase it's a freaking miracle that these things actually work.
But I shouldn't be so harsh on computers. After all it's given me the most enjoyable form of employment.I mean where else would I be able to pretend to be coding some serious hi-tech-answer-to-every-problem-mankind-has type of program, while I'm really writing on these stupid blogs of mine?
O oh!..I need to stop now. My boss is coming my way and pretty soon he's going to be facing my screen. I better put up some window that looks like work. Bloody HASH INLCUDE S-T-D-I-O DOT H!!
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