Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vax4!lambert From: lambert@vax4.DEC Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: A song for our times Message-ID: <3735@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 10:27:35 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3735 Posted: Tue Sep 25 10:27:35 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 01:04:04 EDT Sender: kent@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 107 ***** The Hacker's Song (no apologies whatsoever to Monty Python) ((or the original author!)) 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. They're 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 UUOs 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 a hack in microcode, with a goto on each line, it runs as fast as Superman, but not quite every time! (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 10 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 missiles, to Washington, D.C. 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.