Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=hacking run">hacking run in a given week neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=wannabee">wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=OS">OS or programming language. [ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File]

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