(To the tune of Lose Your Delusion II, Track 4 on Machiavelli and The Four Seasons. Sing along if you want.)
Are Em Ay Dee Ay
Are Em Ay Dee Ay
Turn on Larry Wall, neglect the Countess Lovelace
Time has come for us to choose
Was commenting just a silly ruse?
Turn off Ay Dee Ay, neglect Professor Feldman
Like the rest of us I guess
He can no longer so impress
Why continue to keep trying
Dynamic dispatching and late binding
In the end it all comes down to this
Are Em Ay Dee Ay
Are Em Ay Dee Ay
We all eventually switch
To speedy compilation
We choose the hacker pitch
Like some inner technical hitch
The commenting style that you once had
Ends up in your colostomy bag
Pick comp.lang.c over c.l.a
Choose flamewars over truth
Ay Dee Ay becomes RS like TAO before Knuth
Are Emmed.
Loss of all its inodes.
All of us must face the day
When our ideals have flown away
Just give in to our dismay
Program in Perl not Ay Dee Ay
Time has been in our youth
We sought accuracy in proof
Scoffed at the engineers,
Who satarised pjr and 262
But oh! How does time unnerve us
The Compiler Evaluation Service
Doesn't seem worth the hassle
Don't change your life
Recompile.
Are Em Ay Dee Ay
Are Em Ay Dee Ay
Are Em Ay Dee Ay, neglect Robert Dewar
Like the rest of us I guess
He can no longer so impress
Ay
Ay
Ay Dee Ay
Ay
Ay
Ay Dee Ay
-- by aj and dbs.
Who would like to apologise to TISM.
But won't.
On principle.