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From: clean@johnson.willy.com (Willy)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
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> And miserable!  You have no *clue* what miserable is if you think
> programming is miserable.  I am happier programming than in any other
> part of my job, but *any* part of my job is infinitely better than
> when I was manufacturing bubblebath.  I don't have to do any of the
> following:
> 
> - work with detergent on my hands in an environment that's below freezing
> - risk falling into a vat of bubblebath with a spinning propeller mixing it
> - fight with 450-pound drums of mildly toxic chemicals
> - work 13-hour days of moving 25-pound boxes
> - clean up enormous bubblebath messes on the floor
> - get paid $5 an hour
> - work in an 85-dB ambient noise environment
> - never see the sun

Miserable?  Hey, give me the babes working the bubblebath shift. 
Which would you rather have, a hot babe from the soap shift for a
night of steamy sex in her Tennessee double-wide, or some ditzy
tofu eating C programming bitch?  The choice is yours.

