# Prograsm! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608 "2002-11-06T21:01:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/1 "2002-11-06T21:01:13Z")
Any and all programmers know the feeling: You’ve just hunted down an elusive bug in your code, nalied its digital ass to the wall, and watched as your program suddenly started working. I have just had a multiple prograsm. In lieu of standing up and shouting, thusly disturbing the rest of the CS lab, I post here instead. No real point, other than to note that this truly is comparable to my few, far-between, fumbling meatspace sexual encounters. Oh, yeah, go me. Soon, the post-prograsm depression will kick in, and I’ll wonder why catching this sucka took me so farking long, but for now, I relax in cyber-afterglow. ---
**Author:** ![Syzygy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Syzygy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syzygy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/2 "2002-11-06T21:12:02Z")
Ah yes, the prograsm. Heard of it, but never had one myself, never having compiled anything. However, I have had a pagegasm, when I finally got my HTML coding right, and all the meta tags, hyperlinks and images fall into place. Unfortunately, I can’t make any comparisons as to intensity or duration. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/3 "2002-11-06T22:10:25Z")
I heard Mac coders have **multiple** prograsms, which are also generally more intense than those PC coders experience. Can anyone back this up? And where does Linux fit into all this? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/4 "2002-11-06T23:58:51Z")
Bah. Mine’s not working. Although, perhaps, the frustration could be comparable… ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/5 "2002-11-07T02:13:31Z")
The feeling of joy you get when you finally get a program to work is nothing compared to the feeling you get when you finally figure out _why_ it’s working. Fortunately, this doesn’t happen to me too often. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/6 "2002-11-07T02:19:12Z")
Er, that is, it’s very rare that I have a working program that I don’t understand. Not that I have a hard drive full of beautiful mysteries. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/7 "2002-11-07T04:44:01Z")
hehe, you hit right at the heart, **robertliguori** 🙂 Though sometimes I just enjoy the for (play=1;play\<10;play++) ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/8 "2002-11-07T13:02:46Z")
Even us old-timers still have the occasional prograsm… Yep, there’s nothing like getting an entire jobstream full of **COBOL** programs to play together in perfect harmony. What?? 😉 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/9 "2002-11-07T15:15:24Z")
You actually used the word “meatspace.” _swoon_ My god, g33ks are h4//7. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prograsm/135608/10 "2002-11-07T16:12:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > \*\*You actually used the word “meatspace.” > > _swoon_ > > My god, g33ks are h4//7. \*\* Ugh. I hate the word “meatspace”. That’s always struck me as a word people use to try to show everybody how “digital” they think they are. I think that’s the only word I hate more than “Information superhighway”. But then, I hate _all_ buzzwords.