Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 14:34:59 -0400
To: cdanfor1
From: ssample1
Subject: worksong for engineering

here is a submission for the filk files...

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>Subject: worksong for engineering
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>
>This was passed along the net at work.  I, uh, "improved" it
> some, mostly by trying to get a better match between the
> scansion of the original and the filk.  I wish I could send
> you the name of the original filker, but the person who pos-
> ted here didn't include it :-(.
>
>                         Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code
>                         ----- ---- -- ---- ---- ----
>                                                      Kind of by Paul Simon
> 
>The problem's all inside your code she said to me;
>Recursion is easy if you take it logically.
>I'm here to help you if you're struggling to learn C,
>There must be fifty ways to hose your code.
> 
>She said it's really not my habit to #include,
>And I hope that my files won't be lost or misconstrued;
>But I will recompile -- at the risk of getting screwed:
>There must be fifty ways to hose your code.
> 
>Just blow up the stack Jack,
>Make a bad call Paul,
>Reformat your disk Chris,
>And listen to me.
> 
>Just mess up the bus Gus,
>You don't need to recurse much,
>Just hit the wrong key Lee,
>Set your memory free.
> 
>She said it grieves me so to see you in such pain,
>I wish there were a system you could use so you'd compile again.
>I said I appreciate that and could you please explain
>About the fifty ways.
> 
>She said why don't we both just work on it tonight,
>And I believe before the morning you'll begin to see the light.
>Then she hosed me, and I realized she probably was right:
>There must be fifty ways to hose your code.
> 
>Just lose the address Les,
>Clear the wrong Int Clint,
>Traverse the wrong tree Lee,
>And set your list free.
> 
>Just mess up the bus Gus,
>You don't need to recurse much,
>Just hit the wrong key, Lee:
>Program in C.
>
>
Stephen and Roo Sample   	       	       ssample1@cc.swarthmore.edu
 And he will not go out in the fresh air,
Nor eat his vegetables.
And he will grow thin
As a
Marble.
He will just do nothing at all.
He will  just sit there in the noonday sun.