> I got the idea all at once and didn’t have to fiddle with it; and I wrote it in white-heat and scarcely had to change a word. This sort of thing endears any s

> I got the idea all at once and didn’t have to fiddle with it; and I wrote it in white-heat and scarcely had to change a word. This sort of thing endears any story to any writer. I have had that experience about code twice. The first was when I "got" how I could use recursion to draw a Koch curve fractal. That was in highschool, using VB5. The second time a few years later, when I (on my own) came up with the trie datastructure. I used it to count the frequencies of words in The Hichhikers Guide To The Galaxy.