Paul Barry (barryp) writes "Most Perl programmers know all about Perl Poetry. Maybe it's time for a song? One of my final year undergrads has written a Perl Song that he intends to perform later on this week at his project presentation (no getting out of this now, Jason!). Check out the lyrics here. Sung to the tune of The Beatles' Let It Be. The project involves the development of a collection of SNMP tools programmed in Perl."
Re:Been done?
barryp on 2002-03-01T16:11:45
I was sure it had been. I just thought it would be nice to add to the list of Perl songs.Re:Been done?
belg4mit on 2002-03-01T19:55:15
My point was just that the way it was written up
made it sound as if it was the first & only,
or at leastthat's how I read it.Re:Been done?
barryp on 2002-03-01T21:29:11
That was not my intent. Sorry.Re:Been done?
Jean FORGET on 2002-03-11T06:23:13
Maybe you should take a look at Paul Merton's Humor archive, the similarities are striking.Re:Been done?
barryp on 2002-03-11T10:56:27
Indeed they are. Emmmm... now let me find Jason so that I can shout at him.
Re:Perl Song
barryp on 2002-03-01T21:30:14
I should set that as an assignment. A Perl song that parses!;-)
Dave Green (one of the editors of NTK) did "Tainted Perl" (to the tune of "Tainted Love"). Unfortunately the lyrics don't seem to be online any more, but they did include the couplet
Once I ran carefree
Now I run dash T
Re:Tainted Perl
blech on 2002-03-27T11:52:34
I managed to find a copy, and I've put it on my website (at http://www.husk.org/perl/filk/tainted_perl.txt, for the curious.
