All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery

especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and

fairy god-mothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations

drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal.

Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are

younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the

selection process works, the result is indisputable: "This

time it will surely run," or "I just found the last bug.".