Goodbye Turtle

Okay, I plugged at that problem I was having because I didn't want this day to leave me feeling like a  turtle fly fisherman.  I figured it out.  And how screwy it was.  And it wasn't me!

You know what, when you see:

Software Systems Research
AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ

And people's names that you can't pronounce...

You'd think it'd just work!

I expect this kind of stuff from myself!  Not AT&T Research!  Or the French!

It's a wonder I don't lose what's left of my sanity.  I'm starting to doubt everything.

Tomorrow, I should be able to carry on.

PS: For the record, this whole notion of dynamic attributes for unknown applications and yet-to-be-made plugins with dynamic woo-gee-gootchie typed values... might be "extensible" and "flexible" but it's heck from the outside when you just want to run the non-woo-gee-wowie and know what the heck you need to do.  I want the compiler to bark at me... not the danged run-time mess to silently accept my mistakes in an effort to appease me...

What is wrong with a compiler???  For goodness sakes, it's so much easier to code with a compiler... instead of the whoocheegoochee.

I don't much like typedefs!  And I hate #defines that make shortcuts out of pointers!  Freaking programming is a nightmare!  Arrrgh!  I always feel like I'm going to get fired!  I've felt that way for 13 years of programming.  Why???!!!  How can you master it???  It will only laugh at you.  Laugh at you.

ALL DAY LONG... just to find out that I needed to set a default value for a variable that already had a default --- but I couldn't access the default even though it was there, which makes you wonder why one would have a default???  Doesn't it?  Oh yesh... it does... doesn't it?

Now I know why I drink beer. I suffered no physical withdrawal.  I'm suffering from 12:44am sitting on this ignorant hunk of stupid silicone wafers.  And my arms!  My life sucked up on this blasted infernal calculating nonsense machine!

Give me life!  Set me free!

I'm supposed to "innovate".  I can't even set a value!  Shoot me!