You have ascended
<p>Redoubtable hacker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Salzenberg">Chip Salzenberg</a> wrote me last night with the subject line &#8220;You have ascended&#8221;. I quote in full:</p>
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Long time no chat.  Hope you are well.  In fact, I don&#8217;t have to hope, because I just read this in a book:</p>
<p>Raymond in his brilliant The Cathedral and the Bazaar [2001] &#8230;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all well and good, and I know enough authors not to be excessibly impressed by publication.</p>
<p>Thing is, this book is by Fred Brooks.  As in, Brooks&#8217; Law.</p>
<p>Oh My Lack Of God.</p>
<p>Do you have a halo now, or maybe a relic to protect you from feature creep?
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<p>After boggling for a few minutes, I wrote back:</p>
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I can almost top this.  Donald Knuth once sent me a bug fix.  For INTERCAL.
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<p>Hmmm..  Now, where <em>did</em> I stash that Amulet of Yendor?</p>
<p>If you found the preceding exchange cryptic, you <s>need to get out more</s> are probably a normal human being with, like, a life. How sad for you.</p>
