The programming equivalent of the driving condition road rage.

Code rage occurs when, having stumbled upon a pretty nasty problem, frustration sends the programmer into a frenzy usually consisting of the following two steps:

a) tracing through the program using a debugger to find exactly where some value screws up
b) creating a makeshift hack and praying it solves the problem as a whole.

Of course, step b never solves the problem as a whole because of the other major characteristic of code rage: it is 5 A.M.

The beauty of code rage, however, is that it is a forecast of good things to come--as soon as said programmer awakens the next morning, the real solution will lie comfortably in his/her brain, a mere compile and link away.

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