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- From: ig25@fg30.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: FORTRAN song
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 16:14:29 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Here's a song parody I wrote some time ago; the original is Billy Joel's
- "Pressure". Hope you'll like it :-)
-
-
- FORTRAN
-
- You have to learn to pace yourself
- FORTRAN
- You're just like everybody else
- FORTRAN
- You've only had to write Pascal
- So far
- But you will come to the day
- When the only thing that counts
- Are megaflops on a Cray
- And you'll have to deal with
- FORTRAN
-
- You used to call me paranoid
- FORTRAN
- But even you can not avoid
- FORTRAN
- You swore that ENTRY's a sure road to ruin
- Now here you are with old code
- COMMON blocks are misaligned
- Assigned GOTOs disturb your mind
- And you cannot handle FORTRAN
-
- All grown up and no place to go
- Pascal, Prolog,
- What do you know?
- All your life is a Lisp machine,
- Linked lists, quicksort,
- What does it mean?
- FORTRAN
- FORTRAN
-
- Don't ask me for help
- You're all alone
- FORTRAN
- You'll have to code it
- On your own
- FORTRAN
- I'm sure you'll have some cosmic rationale
- But here's your program, incomplete,
- Two weeks late, three times too slow
- Nothing to do but log on now
- And write all your code in
- FORTRAN
- FORTRAN
-
- All your life is Byte Magazine
- I read it too
- What does it mean?
- FORTRAN
-
- I'm sure you'll have some cosmic rationale
- But here you are with old code
- COMMON blocks are misaligned
- Assigned GOTOs disturb your mind
- And you have to code in
- FORTRAN
- FORTRAN, FORTRAN
- One, two, three, four
- FORTRAN
- --
- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
- The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
- diagram.
-