I'm actually old enough to remember some C compilers (yes, i'm looking at you Mr Borland) that took long enough over a couple of thousand lines of code that you could quite easily make a nice cup of tea and get a proper dunking biscuit from the canteen on the 3rd floor whilst still having time to flirt with Lara, the MDs secretary, on the way back before it finished.
Hell, for that matter, I'm old enough to remember coding in C, before all this new fangled ++ bollocks.