Thursday, July 12, 2007

Do you like it.

"All the world's a Program,And all the men and women merely classes.They have their constructors and their destructors,And one man in his time plays many objects,His acts being several derivations."
---Inspired from As You Like It (II, vii, 139-143) (William Shakespeare)

What it feels like to be in a program? Yes, a software program;
Once, I had a dream, a weird one.

I am in a semi sleepy state; lying on the bed, I see the flat world on the roof of my room.
A lot of known and unknown faces moving around, but their movement are a bit restricted, like in slow motion; moving, running, talking, etc etc…
When I watch closely, I can see different command of 8086 assembly language (low level programming language) in the air, each person is under execution of one command, including me. Just the processor seems to be 386 ( Intel 80386).

It was a surprise to me, but that’s our world, and that’s how we operate. Even our great Mr. William Shakespeare wouldn’t have imagined life being like this.

"What's in a variable name? That which we call a rose,By any other name would consume same amount of memory."
--Inspired from Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) (William Shakespeare)

Every one is following a code path, a lot of common code, just different instances; God is great; the most experienced programmer of the universe. He has been fixing bugs all over and will continue fixing and introducing some. So the product life-cycle goes. Bugs are reality; they bring in the factor of surprise, or rather the variation in our lives; they make God think, making him sweat run for his money. Definitely he earns more that Bill Gates does.

Everybody is in a loop, the mundane daily life is a loop within a module of the particular stage of your life. Go to office, come back to home, go to office, and come back to home…. Life goes on with you moving from one module to another, but the loop hangs around.

As soon as I realize that I was in a loop, I became restless, I started perspiring. Sleep is hell when you realize you can’t move and the fact is you even can’t wake up. I was in a hell; all drenched, search for the Exit command (mov ax, 4c00h ; int 21h).

"I am dying, Assembly, dying."
-- Inspired from Antony and Cleopatra (IV, xv, 41) (William Shakespeare)

This was the typical death module, where one realizes that he has reached his end, but the pain doesn’t end easily; it makes you feel the loop closely, so that you can feel the freedom of afterlife.
Well! that doesnt mean i am a ghost writer.

I don’t program in assembly language anymore, but still int 21h haunts me.

6 comments:

Amit Roy said...

real nice post this one.. the comparision is not new though ..but effective presentation in persoal tone and with literary semi-allusion ( so if I cud say) :)

Unknown said...

Gud one….I like the blend of today’s technological reference & Shakespeare’s quotes….well done Manish…keep it up !!!!

Push. said...

did you really saw a dream like this.. i would appreciate it more if you didnt.. :).. coz that shows how imaginative you are while blending the fiction with truth.
:)
i like it when you restless inside the loop

DreamyEyedFool said...

A good read! Liked it!
Am gonna re-use some of the lines ;)

Rupa said...

thats a nice one, especially Shakespeare's quotes.
You had long time ago left a comment on blog...today was just checking through and ended up at your blog...Thanks for the comment...

Anonymous said...

That was an amazingly creative post!!
Seriously, if you are able to find the EXIT command out, plz plz plz...do let me know too.