Subj : Re: do serious programmers have a life? To : comp.lang.c++,comp.programming From : Baxter Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 08:36 pm It's attitudes like this that are the reason that programmers are viewed as socially inept dweebs. Myself, I've found I solve more problems and write better code if I go home at the end of eight hours. My co-worker puts in a late-nighter, but at noon the next day we're at the same point - I've got as much finished, working code as he does. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- DataGet & PocketLog www.dataget.com Data Collectors www.baxcode.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Randy Howard" wrote in message news:0001HW.BF59DB91007935E9F0407550@news.verizon.net... > > If you can't work 12 hours a day or more without having problems > then you have a medical condition and should seek attention. > More importantly, you do not need 2 or 3 days off a week to stay > healthy. > > You may not get to spend 4 hours every night watching TV and > swilling beer while watching reality TV, or spend all day > saturday watching college athletes run around, then all day > Sunday watching grown men do the same thing. If you can watch > football 8 hours a day, then you can damn sure do real work for > 12. .