[mikewarot]

I have a friend who once took a set of requirements, sat down and wrote the program (back in the days of CP/M) in assembler, and it compiled and ran correctly the first time.

To this day he does everything in PMATE macros, and is always, always hacking the world. He once entered a shortest program contest, his entry was 2 bytes long, and did two things, test and count the amount of RAM in a system.