What do you say to express the first succesful running of a program?

Question

Yesterday, I had a moment of excitement when my LDAP client (pure C Win32) module successful retrieved data from Active Directory for the very first time.

It was more than a smoke test -- I had all ready run a few of those, and it was well less than even feature complete code. Some data was mangled - so it wasn't even code I would show someone else.

But it ran! It worked! (mostly) And now, I just have to massage it into shape. Saying "First data" sounds lame.

An astronomer might refer to 'First light'. A shipbuilder might 'launch'. An ancient Greek philosopher might have had a bathtub moment.

Is there such an expression for coding? What would you say?

Possible duplicate of:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/183469/how-do-you-reward-yourself-when-youve-overcome-a-monster-task
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/643046/whats-your-ceremony-after-finishing-your-project-or-solving-a-hard-problem

Answer 1

Either:

WTF?

or

Woohoo!

(quietly).

Answer 2

You can call it the "Yes" moment.

But the victory dance (thanks Richard) is definitely more expressive.

Answer 3

Its working Somehow ;)

Answer 4

It compiles. Now ship it!

Answer 5

"Eurek -- oh, wait."

Answer 6

I'd say, "Here's my invoice". :)

Answer 7

Eureka, it's running! Now don't ever touch it again!

Answer 8

Yea, baby, yea...

Answer 9

it's the 'Hello World' feeling...

Strangely the hello world feeling is the whole reason programmers program. Just to get that feeling over and over again, it's like an addiction.

My PC telling me 'hello world' for the first time in a new lang. or the first time a contacted a database server succesfully, or the first time I send mail using code, the first time I got mail from my SQL Server to say that a problem might exist, the first time I ftp'd in code, the first time i succeedded to drag and drop in a new GUI, or even just to come up with an image, no matter how trivial or difficult, the exact same feeling...

Answer 10

Zip it and ship it!

Answer 11

I like to quote Boris Grishenko from Goldeneye...

"I am invincible!"

Cheers!

Answer 12

My answer:

"Ok, that's a wrap for 1.0. We'll add non-mangling data functionality in 4.3."

Answer 13

"Whew... Woohoo!!! Hey, wait, I wonder if it... crash"

Answer 14

Oh! Look! Start the bug list!

Answer 15

"Excellent", tapping my fingers together

Answer 16

Woot!

Can I not post one word answers?