When I find my code in tons of trouble
Friends and colleagues come to me
Speaking words of wisdom
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As the deadline fast approaches
And bugs are all I can see
Somewhere someone whispers
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LISP is dead and buried
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I used to write a lot of FORTRAN
For science it worked flawlessly
Try using it for graphics
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If you just spent nearly 30 hours
Debugging some a**embly
Soon you'll be glad to
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Write in C, yeah
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Only wimps use BASIC
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Pascal won't quite cut it
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Don't even mention COBOL
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And when the screen is fuzzing
And the editor is bugging me
I'm sick of ones and zeroes
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A thousand people swear that
TP7 is the one for me
I hate the word "procedure"
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PL/1 is '80s
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The government loves Ada
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