More Beatles tunes - Hum along with your Computer

["J'AIMIE FOUST" <jfoust@MUM.NERIC.ORG>]

I enjoyed "Yesterday" and have since received some more "tunes."  Have a
Happy Thanksgiving break :-)

 Songs to program by...

     Eleanor Rigby
     -------------

    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;
    It takes a while...

    All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
    All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
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    Eleanor Rigby
    Crashes the system and loses 6 hours of work;
    Feels like a jerk.
    Guru MacKenzie
    Wiping the crumbs off the keys as he types in the code;
    Nothing will load.

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

     ===================================

     Unix Man (Nowhere Man)
     --------

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

    Knows the blocksize from du(1)
    Cares not where /dev/null goes to
    Isn't he a bit like you
    And me?

    UNIX Man, please listen(2)
    My lpd(8) is missin'
    UNIX Man
    The wo-o-o-orld is at(1) your command.

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

    UNIX Man, don't worry
    Test with time(1), don't hurry
    UNIX Man
    The new kernel boots, just like you had planned.

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

     ==================================

     Write in C ("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.
    BASIC's not the answer.
    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.

     =========================

     Something
     ---------

    Something in the way it fails,
    Defies the algorithm's logic!
    Something in the way it coredumps...
    I don't want to leave it now
    I'll fix this problem somehow

    Somewhere in the memory I know,
    A pointer's got to be corrupted.
    Stepping in the debugger will show me...
    I don't want to leave it now
    I'm too close to leave it now

    You're asking me can this code go?
    I don't know, I don't know...
    What sequence causes it to blow?
    I don't know, I don't know...

    Something in the initializing code?
    And all I have to do is think of it!
    Something in the listing will show me...
    I don't want to leave it now
    I'll fix this tonight I vow!





J'aime L. Foust, Librarian
Queensbury High School
Queesnbury, NY  12804
jfoust@mum.neric.org

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