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(Fwd) If the Beatles Were Programmers (fwd)



[Submitter's Note: One of these was on this list before, but what the hey!]

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>If the Beatles Were Programmers
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>     Eleanor Rigby
>     Sits at the keyboard
>     And waits for a line on the screen
>     Lives in a dream
>     Waits for a signal
>     Finding some code
>     That will make the machine do some more. What is it for?
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>     All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
>     All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
>
>     Guru MacKenzie
>     Typing the lines of a program that no one will run;
>        Isn't it fun?
>     Look at him working,
>     Munching some chips as he waits for the code to compile;
>        It takes a while...
>
>     All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
>     All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
>
>     Eleanor Rigby
>     Crashes the system and loses 6 hours of work;
>        Feels like a jerk.
>     Guru MacKenzie
>     Wiping the crumbs off the keys as he types in the code;
>        Nothing will load.
>
>     All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
>     All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
>
>     =================================================
>
>     Unix Man
>     --------
>     He's a real UNIX Man
>     Sitting in his UNIX LAN
>     Making all his UNIX .plans
>     For nobody.
>
>     Knows the blocksize from du(1)
>     Cares not where /dev/null goes to
>     Isn't he a bit like you
>     And me?
>
>     UNIX Man, please listen(2)
>     My lpd(8) is missin'
>     UNIX Man
>     The wo-o-o-orld is at(1) your command.
>
>     He's as wise as he can be
>     Uses lex and yacc and C
>     UNIX Man, can you help me
>     At all?
>
>     UNIX Man, don't worry
>     Test with time(1), don't hurry
>     UNIX Man
>     The new kernel boots, just like you had planned.
>
>     He's a real UNIX Man
>     Sitting in his UNIX LAN
>     Making all his UNIX .plans
>     For nobody ...
>     Making all his UNIX .plans
>     For nobody.
>
>     =================================================
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>     Write in C
>     ----------
>     When I find my code in tons of trouble,
>     Friends and colleagues come to me,
>     Speaking words of wisdom:
>     "Write in C."
>
>     As the deadline fast approaches,
>     And bugs are all that I can see,
>     Somewhere, someone whispers:
>     "Write in C."
>
>     Write in C, Write in C,
>     Write in C, oh, Write in C.
>     LOGO's dead and buried,
>     Write in C.
>
>     I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
>     For science it worked flawlessly.
>     Try using it for graphics!
>     Write in C.
>
>     If you've just spent nearly 30 hours,
>     Debugging some assembly,
>     Soon you will be glad to
>     Write in C.
>
>     Write in C, Write in C,
>     Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
>     BASIC's not the answer.
>     Write in C.
>
>     Write in C, Write in C
>     Write in C, oh, Write in C.
>     Pascal won't quite cut it.
>     Write in C.
>
>     =================================================
>
>     Something
>     ---------
>     Something in the way it fails,
>     Defies the algorithm's logic!
>     Something in the way it coredumps...
>
>     I don't want to leave it now
>     I'll fix this problem somehow
>
>     Somewhere in the memory I know,
>     A pointer's got to be corrupted.
>     Stepping in the debugger will show me...
>
>     I don't want to leave it now
>     I'm too close to leave it now
>
>     You're asking me can this code go?
>     I don't know, I don't know...
>     What sequence causes it to blow?
>     I don't know, I don't know...
>
>     Something in the initializing code?
>     And all I have to do is think of it!
>     Something in the listing will show me...
>
>     I don't want to leave it now
>     I'll fix this tonight I vow!
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