As a former computer programmer, I can confidently state that I personally am not a psychopath myself.
However some challenges my managers set seemed a bit insane, such as applying structured programming to unstructured analysis and writing reentrant assembler programs though the latter was useful when I set one up to call itself. Other exciting pastimes included using meaningless four letter combos for field names, including only cryptic comments and arranging the program subroutines alphabetically.
This post was edited by Malizz at July 2, 2017 12:19 PM MDT