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21 Reasons Programming Is Better Than Dating (For Guys)
I'm an old married guy with four kids, but I remember being in my 20s, single, and looking for love. So you're staying home on a Friday night writing web code, what's so bad about that? What you need to remember is the 21 REASONS PROGRAMMING IS BETTER THAN DATING.
- Figuring out what's wrong with your program can actually be accomplished
- In programming, you can spend time with a big Endian and a little Endian on the same night
- If you want output, you just tell it. Is that simple or what?
- in programming if your heap crashes, you don't have anywhere to drive anyway
- You can check out other programs even while you're working with this one
- If you catch anything, you won't have to get a shot
- If you think the web page looks good, you don't have to keep telling it that every ten minutes
- If you're a good programmer, your programs will always have class
- If you write a great program, you'll get rich and meet beautiful women, where if you just meet beautiful women, they'll take all of your money and you'll become bitter and write humor on blogs instead of working
- Your program, no matter what, will not call you at 8 am and want you to go to the zoo
- If your program has inheritance, it won't keep telling you about it every five minutes
- bool means the answer can only be yes or no
- At home it's dollar beer all night long (and that's for the imported stuff)
- You get your choice of models - Applets, ASP pages, Servlets, .NET applications
- No matter how complex your object structure is, it will not match the relationships between any two General Hospital characters
- It was $.10 burrito day at the cafeteria. Need I say more?
- It's possible to pick your nose and program at the same time
- When you hit the big run button, something always happens (even if you don't like it)
- If you get an index out of bounds with your program, you get to keep programming
- You can have as many programs as you want open on your screen at all times
- The complier never tells you about all the other programmers it's had banging on it
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Very impresive conclusion. I was thinking the same, couple days ago, should i go out with my girlfriend or stay home and programming. And, i was stay home ...
But there is time, when we need to rest, and stay out of computer ... :D :D To regenerate for new task's.
These things work themselves out with time, Dejan. After all, I did say I was married and had four kids! So there must have been some time that I wasn't programming. Actually, with 4 kids, there is a LOT of time I am not programming, but that is another story.
Just remember the important things in life. Your girlfriend, or wife, or kids, or family, will always be there. While the computer and the compiler? They change those every few years. So spend some time where it matters.
Dating becomes boring afte sometime with the same person. But programming never does!