[Gllug] have you ever dreamt about RMS?

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Jul 24 18:48:24 UTC 2011


On 23 Jul 2011, salsaman at xs4all.nl uttered the following:
> I can't claim to have dreamt of RMS, but a few weeks ago when I was study
> algorithms intensely for a Masters entrance exam, I had a dream where I
> was attempting to explain Knuth's algorithm X - dancing pointers - to
> somebody using real dancers !

I have repeatedly found bugs in my dreams, generally by physically
falling through the code until it hits the place where things go wrong,
then waking up in momentary terror.

(It's not always right, but it is an awful lot of the time.)

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