Programmer + Drugs =? [closed]
- by sytycs
I just read this quote from Steve Jobs:
"Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life."
Now I'm wondering:
Has there ever been a study where programmers have been given drugs to see if they could produce "better" code?
Is there a programming concept, which originated from people who where drug-users?
Do you know of a piece of code, which was written by someone under the influence?
EDIT
So I did a little more research and it turns out Dennis R. Wier actually documented how he took LSD to wrap his head around a coding project:
"At one point in the project I could not
get an overall viewpoint for the operation
of the entire system. It really was too much
for my brain to keep all the subtle aspects
and processing nuances clear so I could get
a processing and design overview. After
struggling with this problem for a few
weeks, I decided to use a little acid to see if
it would enable a breakthrough, because
otherwise, I would not be able to complete
the project and be certain of a consistent
overall design"[1]
There is also an interesting article on wired about Kevin Herbet, who used LSD to solve tough technical problems and chemist Kary Mullis even said "...that LSD had helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences." [2]
