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Code Dependents Anonymous 12 Step Program for Developers
—by Ellen Sander

Steps to Coding Serenity

Step 1: Admit that you are powerless over the obsession with making things work your way.

Step 2: Believe that a computer faster than the one you now have can restore you to sanity.

Step 3: Make a decision to turn yourself over to the operating system of your choice.

Step 4: Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of your software and hardware.

Step 5: Admit to yourself and to no one else the exact nature of your fear of memory management.

Step 6: Be ready to have to have documentation remove these defects of character and design.

Step 7: Humbly reconfigure your environment to remove the shortcomings of your ignorance.

Step 8: Make a list of all the unregistered tools you have cursed and be prepared to make amends.

Step 9: Make direct amends, where possible, to those exact tools and then pay for them.

Step 10: Continue to maintain your inventory and where you were wrong share your chagrin with other Code Dependents.

Step 11: Seek through prayer and meditation to understand what you need to know without stress.

Step 12: Learn what thirteenth stepping is and do it often.

Ellen Sander, 1990

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