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From: coggins@coggins.cs.unc.edu (Dr. James Coggins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: From the Dept. of Cybernetic Musicology...
Summary: Apologies to Schickele and Lehrer, my heroes
Keywords: lyrics, c++, bad, terrible, alleged humor, awful
Message-ID: <5491@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 88 15:25:45 GMT
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Found in the trash at the USENIX C++ Conference
(to be inflicted, uh, sung to an incredibly obvious folk song tune)
(aren't you glad we don't have hypermedia News now?)

Our bosses come a-marching in Hurrah! Hurrah!
They're counting lines of code again Hurrah! Hurrah!
So you wrote a hundred, reused ten thou -
Who cares? does the system work right now?
And we'll all go crazy
With object design to do.

The architects come marching in Hurrah! Hurrah!
Designing new machines again Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll have interrupts, traps and exceptions, too
In our six multiprocessor CPU
And we'll all go crazy
With object design to do.

The developers come a-marching in Hurrah! Hurrah!
They want some crazy new feature again Hurrah! Hurrah!
We really need this feature right now
Can I kludge it in? Will you show me how?
And we'll drive Bjarne crazy
With language design to do.

The users come a-marching in Hurrah! Hurrah!
Can't find it in the Book again Hurrah! Hurrah!
We want standard libraries, debuggers, syntax-directed editors,
    parameterized types, incremental compilation, dynamic linking,
    pointers to members, educational material, and Version 2 -
Multiply inherit exceptions, too!
And we'll drive Bjarne crazy
With more design to do!

(Not only will I disavow any opinion contained herein, but I'll 
deny under oath that I have ever seen this posting before.)