Chapter 3. Life After Compilation

It's nothing short of amazing how excited we programmers can get when our newly built program simply compiles for the first time. What a great achievement! It makes us feel as if we're almost done implementing that program.

Well, sure, a clean compile is an important milestone (one we are sure to experience again and again, as we apply fixes to our code). But it is also just the beginning of a long journey that will someday lead to our program being placed into production, which is sort of like being voted into the Hall of Fame. Real users will now be using our code. We rock!