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From: gawilson@watdaisy.UUCP (Graham Wilson)
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Subject: The Hacker's Song
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 14:44:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 14:44:05 1985
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This is a little song I picked up a while back (don't know who wrote it
though).  It is sung to the tune of 'The Lumberjack song' (Monty Python).


The Hacker's Song

I'm a hacker and I'm okay.
I work all night and I sleep all day.

I wrote some hacks in APL,
each on a single line.
Their mutually recursive,
and run in n-squared time!

(chorus:)
Oh he's a hacker and he's okay.
He works all night and he sleeps all day.
I'm a hacker and I'm okay.
I work all night and I sleep all day.

I wrote two hacks in MACRO,
with VVO's galore.
One plays Nim on the console lights,
while the other zeros core!

(chorus)

I wrote a hack in SNOBOL,
with FORTRAN subroutines,
It spits out trashy stories,
for ladies' magazines!

(chorus)

I wrote some hacks in InterLisp.
they barely fit in core.
The swapper thrashed its guts out,
so now it runs no more.

(chorus)

I wrote some hacks in Ada,
and still can't run them yet.
Do you suppose we'll see that day
on it, I wouldn't bet!

(chorus)

I wrote a hack for UNIX,
while it was still in Vogue.
It knows the tricks to pacman,
and plays mean games of rogue!

(chorus)

I wrote some hacks, distributed,
across our neat gateway.
Each one of its ten functions
kills RIG in a different way!

(chorus)

I wrote some hacks in Mlisp,
to edit files of root.
It writes them back no-execute,
and now it won't reboot!

(chorus)

I wrote some hacks to manage jobs
with PLITS and IPC.
Its very first activity,
was firing the faculty!

(chorus)

I wrote some hacks with P and V
to synchronize my life.
Now I can't use the bathroom,
I'm deadlocked with my wife!

(chorus)

I wrote a hack (in theory),
it may not ever halt.
But if it does, just watch out...
[Fatal Error: Infinite Page Fault]

(chorus)

I wrote a hack with hough transforms
for our folks at DoD.
It'll guide their fancy missles,
to Washington, D.C.

(chorus)

I'm a hacker and I'm okay,
I work all night and I sleep all day.
I'll have a system of my own someday,
that'll run my code in a hacked-up way.

Author Unknown...

Graham Wilson, University of Waterloo
"Always store beer in a dark place." - Lazarus Long.