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- /* SYMPATHY FOR THE PROGRAMMER
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- Please allow me, to introduce myself;
- I'm a man, of BITS and BYTES.
- Wrote a million lines, of pC code;
- and I stayed up, many a late night.
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- I was 'round, when I.B.M.;
- made the PC, and set the stage.
- Been payin' STEADY DUES since then;
- now they call me: THE DIGITAL MAGE.
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- Pleased to meet you, and I hope you, caught my name;
- 'Cause programmin' this thing, is the nature, of my game!
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- I stood by while ASHTON-TATE;
- made the tender case, for that MESS they've made.
- Million-dollar magazine adds;
- with endorsement - The Marquis DuSade. (Mraquis LIKES it!)
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- I shouted out:
- WHO BOUGHT 6 MILLION PCs?
- Well, after all;
- it was, uh, you and me.
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- Pleased to meet you; too bad your head, is in the past;
- And what's puzzling you is: How can it DO all that, THAT FAST?
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- I am a neutrino, in my digital dream;
- and all I need, to get MY kicks:
- While your ram-chips RAGE, and your printers SCREAM;
- is 20Mhz, and a '386!
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- Run this machine, in the HAMMER LANE;
- just as fast as, it will go.
- Set two more waits, on the 8-bit bus;
- It's a MAGE program, don't you know?
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- Let me, please, introduce myself, and I hope you, like my screens.
- Just press your H key, to see what, it all means.
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- Now the C.E.O, He's a MERE USER;
- and saints, the VP's aint.
- The boys upstairs, they call me PROGRAMMER;
- say I'm in need of, some RESTRAINT!
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- But when they meet me, they show sympathy;
- they have courtesy, and good taste.
- They use all their well-learned qualities;
- lest I lay drive, C: TO WASTE! (OH, YEAH!)
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- Pleased to meet you, and in case you, ever doubt me;
- Don't use the computer; just for ONE WEEK, try it without me!
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- Now the business world runs, at the devil's pace;
- but who really, turns it round?
- It's not the GM, or this month's sales ace;
- no they're just a, bunch of CLOWNS!
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- It's that MAGIC MACHINE, over there on the desk;
- and those who, designed and sold it.
- And WHY do programmers, smile most of the time?
- It's 'cause all it "knows," WE TOLD IT!
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- Pleased to meet you, and I hope you, got it straight;
- At this very moment, thirteen computers, process YOUR FATE!
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- When your visa bill, arrives next month;
- it's for seventeen, million five.
- Your utilities, they're all shut off;
- it seems that your check, did not arrive.
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- Yeah, and what about those COPS?
- You know they got, computers too.
- If YOUR name happens, to appear on THAT screen;
- then the output, it just won't do!
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- Pleased to meet you, and I notice:
- you're solvent and free.
- But the SOURCE CODE that, makes the WHOLE WORLD work;
- came from PROGRAMMERS, like me.
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- shamelessly plagiarized by: Monte Ward. - THE DIGITAL MAGE
- (Don't bother to sue me, Mick, I aint makin' no money!)
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