Re: Constant interruptions and left brain - right brain thing

Phlip writes:

> It is very sad that people who would never indulge in cartomancy or
> astromancy (astrology) consider the pseudoscience of "bicameral mind"
> theories to be more than a metaphor.

It has a *little* more scientific basis than that, but that is neither
here nor there.

> [...] programming requires filling your short-term memory [...]
>
> Interruptions destroy this short-term memory.

Regardless of the interruption.

I can't speak to the work modes of others, but it's not uncommon for
me to be--figuratively speaking--several "sub-routine calls" into a
process that requires successfully "popping each frame off the stack"
on the way back to the main process.

Interruptions are deadly when that's happening--usually results in
"stack corruption" of some sort.

An image I've used to communicate this to non-programmer managers is
that of those jugglers you used to see on Ed Sullivan. The ones with
all the plates spinning on vertical sticks. They'd dash around like
crazy keeping the spins going.

Programming can be like that. Lots of stuff going on that you need
to keep on top of. Get interrupted and plates begin to crash onto
the floor.

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