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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?
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> 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...
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> All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
> All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
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> 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.
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> All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
> All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
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> Unix Man
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> He's a real UNIX Man
> Sitting in his UNIX LAN
> Making all his UNIX .plans
> For nobody.
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> Knows the blocksize from du(1)
> Cares not where /dev/null goes to
> Isn't he a bit like you
> And me?
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> UNIX Man, please listen(2)
> My lpd(8) is missin'
> UNIX Man
> The wo-o-o-orld is at(1) your command.
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> He's as wise as he can be
> Uses lex and yacc and C
> UNIX Man, can you help me
> At all?
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> UNIX Man, don't worry
> Test with time(1), don't hurry
> UNIX Man
> The new kernel boots, just like you had planned.
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> 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
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> When I find my code in tons of trouble,
> Friends and colleagues come to me,
> Speaking words of wisdom:
> "Write in C."
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> As the deadline fast approaches,
> And bugs are all that I can see,
> Somewhere, someone whispers:
> "Write in C."
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> Write in C, Write in C,
> Write in C, oh, Write in C.
> LOGO's dead and buried,
> Write in C.
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> I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
> For science it worked flawlessly.
> Try using it for graphics!
> Write in C.
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> If you've just spent nearly 30 hours,
> Debugging some assembly,
> Soon you will be glad to
> Write in C.
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> Write in C, Write in C,
> Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
> BASIC's not the answer.
> Write in C.
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> Write in C, Write in C
> Write in C, oh, Write in C.
> Pascal won't quite cut it.
> Write in C.
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> Something
> ---------
> Something in the way it fails,
> Defies the algorithm's logic!
> Something in the way it coredumps...
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> 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...
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> 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...
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> Something in the initializing code?
> And all I have to do is think of it!
> Something in the listing will show me...
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> I don't want to leave it now
> I'll fix this tonight I vow!
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