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- SEQ formatted GEOS file V1.0
- Panasonic 1090
- c 1090
- GEOWRITE
- Conductors1
- The Programmer
- choir
- Write Image V2.0
- geoWrite V2.0
- d +# k" t
- DIALOG
- "Mighty machine, I have returned,
- Though my last offering was spurned.
- You, whom I thought to have befriended,
- You read my job and then abended.
- "Ungrateful wretch, I made you great
- And raised you to your high estate.
- And reckless, burned the midnight oil
- Through long man-centuries of toil.
- "Once absolute I used to pour,
- Into you reader's gaping maw.
- And when you said this would not do
- In BAL I wrote for you.
- "Control cards now you did request,
- Which to supply I did my best.
- Though no one knew what they were for,
- Just that you always wanted more.
- "Ascii, Ebcdic, BCD,
- Cobol, Fortran, RPG,
- Into your reader's I've supplied
- And still you are not satisfied.
- "For if to you twelve jobs I send
- One half will loop, while six abend.
- What I submit, you soon reject.
- Why can't you treat
- with respect?
- Then answered him the Great Machine:
- "The junk you send I've often seen:
- To find a worse mess can't be done
- (Always excepting PL/1).
- "Your errors, never mind how slight--
- Why should I have put them right?
- Despite your curses, I'm your tool;
- It's not my fault if you're a fool.
- "I have important things to do--
- Production, and time sharing too,
- Data base, communications,
- And other gainful occupations.
- "No space or time I'll waste on you
- Who never think before you do.
- See, your program's bombed once more,
- So here's your dump, and there's the door!"
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