@Natasha_Jay I can't find the original joke, which is on Jack Ganssle site, then I try... A hardware engineer and a Java programmer are hold by a group of terrorists. At some point the bad guys say "Ok, we're gonna kill you: any last wish?" the programmer says "I worked all my life on a complex software and I'd like to make a detailed dissertation on it" the guy says "Ok, done, and you?" to the HW engineer "I want to be killed first"