From: Bruce Tobin
Subject: Lisp song
Date: 
Message-ID: <HpdO4.2606$%G6.35683@typhoon.columbus.rr.com>
An mp3 recording of this is available at

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/49/bob_kanefsky_parody_lyric.html



Parody lyrics copyright 7/29/96 by Bob Kanefsky.
____________________________________________________________

I was taught assembler
in my second year of school.
It's kinda like construction work --
with a toothpick for a tool.
So when I made my senior year,
I threw my code away,
And learned the way to program
that I still prefer today.

Now, some folks on the Internet
put their faith in C++.
They swear that it's so powerful,
it's what God used for us.
And maybe it lets mortals dredge
their objects from the C.
But I think that explains
why only God can make a tree.

For God wrote in Lisp code
When he filled the leaves with green.
The fractal flowers and recursive roots:
The most lovely hack I've seen.
And when I ponder snowflakes,
never finding two the same,
I know God likes a language
with its own four-letter name.

Now, I've used a SUN under Unix,
so I've seen what C can hold.
I've surfed for Perls, found what Fortran's for,
Got that Java stuff down cold.
Though the chance that I'd write COBOL code
is a SNOBOL's chance in Hell.
And I basically hate hieroglyphs,
so I won't use APL.

Now, God must know all these languages,
and a few I haven't named.
But the Lord made sure, when each sparrow falls,
that its flesh will be reclaimed.
And the Lord could not count grains of sand
with a 32-bit word.
Who knows where we would go to
if Lisp weren't what he preferred?

And God wrote in Lisp code
Every creature great and small.
Don't search the disk drive for man.c,
When the listing's on the wall.
And when I watch the lightning burn
Unbelievers to a crisp,
I know God had six days to work,
So he wrote it all in Lisp.

Yes, God had a deadline.
So he wrote it all in Lisp.

From: Matt Curtin
Subject: Re: Lisp song
Date: 
Message-ID: <xlxhfcagjiq.fsf@epsilon.cis.ohio-state.edu>
>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Tobin <······@columbus.rr.com> writes:

  Bruce> An mp3 recording of this is available at
  Bruce> http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/49/bob_kanefsky_parody_lyric.html

It's been around a while, but if anyone has yet to have heard it, I'll
second the recommendation.  It really is great.  (In my biased
opinion. :-)

-- 
Matt Curtin ········@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
From: Tim Bradshaw
Subject: Re: Lisp song
Date: 
Message-ID: <ey3aehvsa1b.fsf@cley.com>
* Jeff DelPapa wrote:

> Did anyone ever record "alices lisp machine".  Cstacy, got the lyrics
> squirrled away anywhere?

I have the whole thing somewhere, if anyone wants it (not recorded,
just the words...)

--tim
From: Eli Goldberg
Subject: Re: Lisp song
Date: 
Message-ID: <eli-4C75DA.19241013052000@nntp1.best.com>
In article <···············@epsilon.cis.ohio-state.edu>, Matt Curtin 
<········@interhack.net> wrote:

> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Tobin <······@columbus.rr.com> writes:
> 
>   Bruce> An mp3 recording of this is available at
>   Bruce> 
>   http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/49/bob_kanefsky_parody_lyric.html
> 
> It's been around a while, but if anyone has yet to have heard it, I'll
> second the recommendation.  It really is great.  (In my biased
> opinion. :-)

Glad you liked it!

<plug>

If I may be so shameless, the Roundworm CD featuring this song (and 14 
other of Bob Kanefsky's parodies) will be back from the duplicators 
within the next two weeks, and we're accepting pre-orders --- 
<http://www.prometheus-music.com/roundworm.html>.

This is small print music, so every order helps pay a significant chunk 
of the expense of producing & printing it.

</plug>

> -- 
> Matt Curtin ········@interhack.net 
> http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/

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From: Bob Kanefsky
Subject: Re: Lisp song [on mp3.com/songworm]
Date: 
Message-ID: <392EAB71.66E8A93D@Songworm.com>
In article <···············@epsilon.cis.ohio-state.edu>,
Matt Curtin  <········@interhack.net> wrote:
>>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Tobin <······@columbus.rr.com> writes:
>
>  Bruce> An mp3 recording of this is available at
>  Bruce> http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/49/bob_kanefsky_parody_lyric.html
>
>It's been around a while, but if anyone has yet to have heard it, I'll
>second the recommendation.  It really is great.

Thanks.  I expect to be struck down by a lightning bolt at any moment,
having been raised in a religion that teaches that God allocated the
entire Universe with a single call to the C library ("malloc ha_ollum").

Of course, the recording has been there for months, and the lyrics have
been on http://www.songworm.com for even longer (my site's mostly
generated by Lisp, by the way, translting Word/RTF and Hypercard to
HTML).  But if God doesn't have Internet access yet, it might have
escaped his notice.  Now that the CD is on sale, I'd better start
wearing rubber soles.

					--Kanef
From: Reini Urban
Subject: Re: Lisp song [on mp3.com/songworm]
Date: 
Message-ID: <392f80fc.85755650@judy>
Bob Kanefsky wrote:
>... translting Word/RTF and Hypercard to HTML

did you write this beast by your own? can it do tables?
is it just the perl rtf2html module?

text-only with some basic formatting is trivial but i would be
interested in advanced formatting, because for now i have to live with
the htmlhelp converter and/or msword htmlout engine, which is not
improvable and cannot "correct" the internal rtf (= winword) formatting
problems.

rtf2html does \par => <p> instead of <br> and more.

--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/autocad/news/faq/autolisp.html
From: Johannes Beck
Subject: Re: Lisp song [on mp3.com/songworm]
Date: 
Message-ID: <393172DF.27A95F2A@arcormail.de>
Bob Kanefsky wrote:
> 
> In article <···············@epsilon.cis.ohio-state.edu>,
> Matt Curtin  <········@interhack.net> wrote:
> >>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Tobin <······@columbus.rr.com> writes:
> >
> >  Bruce> An mp3 recording of this is available at
> >  Bruce> http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/49/bob_kanefsky_parody_lyric.html
> >
> >It's been around a while, but if anyone has yet to have heard it, I'll
> >second the recommendation.  It really is great.
> 
> Thanks.  I expect to be struck down by a lightning bolt at any moment,
> having been raised in a religion that teaches that God allocated the
> entire Universe with a single call to the C library ("malloc ha_ollum").

Others believe that the universe is expanding. Which means there must be
a severe memory leak and nobody will fix this until the next reboot...

Joe

-- 
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