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From magidj@slic.cellbio.duke.edu Tue Aug 25 13:01:38 1992
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Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu by SunSite.unc.edu (4.1/TAS/11-16-88)
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id AA08363; Tue, 25 Aug 92 13:01:36 EDT
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Received: from slic.cellbio.duke.edu
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by duke.cs.duke.edu (5.65/2.22G/4.1.1)
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id AA10841; Tue, 25 Aug 92 13:02:02 -0400
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Received: by slic.cellbio.duke.edu (5.52/890607.SGI)
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(for @duke.cs.duke.edu:jem@sunsite.unc.edu) id AA06840; Tue, 25 Aug 92 13:04:44 EDT
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Article: 674 of alt.folklore.computers
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Path: news.duke.edu!duke!mcnc!stanford.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!uunet!iWarp.intel.com|ichips!intelhf!agora!wyvern
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From: wyvern@agora.rain.com (Sturm und Drang)
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.humor
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Subject: Re: Filks for `The Laughing Hacker'
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Message-Id: <1991Oct22.233449.4466@agora.uucp>
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Date: 22 Oct 91 23:34:49 GMT
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References: <1d78rx#73hsTl443wZ29yHZPy7jy7Og=eric@snark.thyrsus.com>
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Sender: agora!wyvern@duke.cs.duke.edu (Scott Sanford)
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Organization: Laughing Turnip Book Farm
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Lines: 61
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Xref: news.duke.edu alt.folklore.computers:674 rec.humor:1273
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Status: RO
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Apparently-To: jem@sunsite.unc.edu
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In article <foobar> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
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>I blush...
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>Due to a finger error, I have lost a fine collection of several filks someone
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>sent me for `The Laughing Hacker'. All I remember about them is that one of
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>them parodied Billy Joel's `The Longest Time' and another Huey Lewis's
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>`I want a New Drug'. They were good, and I want to use them.
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>Would the gentleman who mailed me these please resend them?
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>
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>I apologize to the rest of you for using net.bandwidth this way...
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I, too, would like these e-mailed to me as soon as possible by anyone
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who might be lucky enough to have them. As a sign of good faith and not
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so good taste, I include this:
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THE PROGRAMMER'S BLUES - WITH APOLOGIES TO GLENN FRYE
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There's trouble in the data now, I can feel it in my bones,
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Had a premonition that I shouldn't program alone,
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Had the new Rev loaded but I didn't think it'd fry,
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Then everything exploded and 2 weeks work blew sky-high!
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So baby here's a printout and a keyboard in your hand,
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And here's a little floppy. Now, do it just the way he planned,
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You debug for 20 days and I'll pay you 20 grand!
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I'm sorry it went down like this, but some chip had to fuse.
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It's the typing of the language, it's the programmer's blues...
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Programmer's blues...
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Coder's and analyst's, hacker's and sysop's,
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The comments and strange bomboffs, and the bugs nobody copped,
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No matter if it's Pascal, Basic, or Cobol,
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You've got to carry manuals, there's no online help at all!
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It's lots of rotten coffee, and lots of dirty food,
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Every variable name is dangerous, it might have been pre-used,
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It's the lure of relaxed typing, it's so easy to be crude!
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Perhaps you'll understand it better, when you see my tools,
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It's the ultimate enhancement, it's the programmer's blues...
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Programmer's blues...
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You see it in the memos, you read them every day,
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They say you have to fix those bugs, but they don't go away.
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No matter how hard you work, it just won't run ok,
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You bury them in subroutines, but you know they are here to stay!
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You hope that none'll notice them, but they always seem to do,
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You beg for Beta-testing, maybe one will give a clue,
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Down from the office of your manager, you learn the heat's on you...
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Heat's on you...
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It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse,
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It's policies of debugging, it's the programmer's blues...
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Programmer's blues...
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