The Programmer's Blues (abbreviated version) ---------------------- by Bo Zimmerman and Lee H. Fox ------------------------------ Well I woke up this mornin' rolled myself out of bed. Powered up my computer, my compiler's still dead! There aint no doubt about it... I got the programmer's blues. Twenty pages of source code, hadn't saved it at all. What's this error Im gettin'? "General protection fault?!" Yea that work gone down the toilet, is everything I done since June. It hurts like you don't know it! The Programmer's Blues. Coffee stains on my floppies. Twinkie goo 'tween my keys. Cold pizza on the table. Thurstbuster 'tween my knees! Aint had real food since Thursday. Gettin' fatter than Shamu. Surest sign that Im feelin' those programmer blues. Hash function's not hashin. B-tree lost it's root. I'm afraid if I run this the damn thing will reboot. Dammit, half of my comments were functions once, it's true. At least the program will compile now 'spite my programmer's blues. Got syntactical errors. A nonterminating child. Oh my linkers not linking, and my editor's gone wild! Oh the noise my drives are makin' means my hardware's goin too. 'been cursin at the cursor, with my Programmer's blues Pointers pullin up null, Tangled threads in a pile. Every process I'm forkin' is a re-bell-ious child! Well its getting clearer and clearer... with each core dump in my view. I think I wrote a virus. Those programmer blues! While true goin' false. For loop falling through Lord, the only thing workin' are my pound includes! It's a bad bad feelin when yer output's always new! It's a bad situation those programmer blues. Self modifying daemon, reached a self conscious stage. Now its askin for money and an internet web page! Yea it really wouldn't matter, if it would let me use it too. But its modified my passwords! Gives me programmer's blues. Yea, this garbage on my printout means my nightmare's comin' true. I think I'll just reformat. Got the programmer blues!