Fun_People Archive
10 Jul
Babbage Meets the Beatles

Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 96 09:34:12 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: Babbage Meets the Beatles

Forwarded-by: elshaw@MIT.EDU (Libby Shaw)
Forwarded-by: Ray Lefebvre <rgl@apldbio.com>
Forwarded-by: Elias Keshishoglou <Elias_Keshishoglou@gateway.apple.com>
Forwarded-by: Brian Korek

                  Beatles songs for the computer age
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 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?

 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;
 Where is the style?

 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;
 What is it worth?
 Guru MacKenzie
 Wiping the blood off his hands as he walks from the grave;
 Nothing was saved.

 All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
 All the lonely users, why does it take so long?


 ---------------------------------------------------------- ---

 Nowhere Man/Unix Man


 He's a real UNIX Man
 Sitting in his UNIX LAN
 Making all his UNIX .plans
 For nobody

 He's as wise as he can be
 Programs in lex, yacc and C
 UNIX Man, can you help me
 At all?

 UNIX Man, please listen
 My printout is missin'
 UNIX Man
 The wo-o-o-orld is your 'at' command


 -------------------------------------------------

 Let It Be

 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.
 Only wimps use BASIC.
 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.

 Write in C, Write in C,
 Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
 Don't even mention COBOL.

© 1996 Peter Langston