Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!mathnews From: mathnews@watdcsu.UUCP (mathNEWS) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: rewrite Message-ID: <1716@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 16:30:57 EDT Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1716 Posted: Wed Oct 2 16:30:57 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 05:01:32 EDT Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 48 Hello net, I'm back (I can hear the groans now...). From the University of Waterloo's mathNEWS, Vol. 39, No. 1: Refrain: Puff the fractal dragon was written in C And frolicked while processes switched in mainframe memory. Puff the fractal dragon was written in C And frolicked while processes switched in mainframe memory. No plain fanfold paper could hold that fractal Puff-- He grew so fast no plotting pack could shrink him far enough. Compiles and simulations grew so quickly tame And swapped out all their data space when Puff pushed his stack frame. (refrain) Puff, he grew so quickly, while others moved like snails And mini-Puffs would perch themselves on his gigantic tail. All the student hackers loved that fractal Puff But DCS did not like Puff, and finally said, "Enough!" (refrain) Puff used more resources than DCS could spare. The operator killed Puff's job--he didn't seem to care. A gloom fell on the hackers; it seemed to be the end, But Puff trapped the exception, and grew from naught again! (refrain) "Weird" Jim Jordankovic DCS stands for 'Department of Computing Services', the twits responsible for our worthless hordes of IBM equipment (but also the providers of mathNEWS's sort of free Unix account, so I can't complain too loudly)... dwarf -- "May your Coke always be Classic." mathNEWS--the math student newspaper at the University of Waterloo {allegra|clyde|linus|ihnp4|decvax}!watmath!watdcsu!mathnews UUCP mathnews%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet CSNET mathnews@watdcsu NETNORTH Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com