Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!gawilson From: gawilson@watdaisy.UUCP (Graham Wilson) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: The Hacker's Song Message-ID: <6947@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 14:44:05 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6947 Posted: Mon Feb 11 14:44:05 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 04:51:18 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 106 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.