An Ode for Programmers (apologies to Monty Python)
From a long lost t-shirt. Think Monty Python & the Holy Grail:
We're programmers of the Round Table.
We code when e're we're able.
We write specs and subroutines
With crashes rebootable.
We dine well in our cubes a lot.
Eat pizza with ham and jam and spam a lot.
We're programmers of the Round Table.
Our objects are formidable,
But many times we're given deadlines
That are quite unthinkable.
Were coding mad in Camelot.
We program in the dark a lot.
From a t-shirt “VCDC Night at the Movies”, courtesy of NuMega, Stingray & Developmentor. VCDC was the “Visual C++ Developers Conference”, I forget which year.
Comments
Anonymous
April 08, 2004
No, let's not go to Camelot, it's a rather silly place...Anonymous
April 15, 2004
Camelot! Camelot! Camelot!!
...it's only a modelAnonymous
May 24, 2004
Ha. Camelot. I only just noticed this :-)
Joke for 3 people.Anonymous
May 24, 2004
Please help me with the questions below :Anonymous
June 01, 2004
model,model,model,falling....Anonymous
October 18, 2010
It was 1996, Washington DC, some day near Halloween. My first time in the US. That's why I remember. That and the fact my car was stolen that night. kkkkAnonymous
October 25, 2010
Victor: I remember speaking at VCDC around Halloween time, but it was in Palm Springs. I've never been to DC. Maybe they used the shirts two years in a row?Anonymous
January 03, 2011
Andy, I checked the material I could find and I confirmed it was in DC. So I guess you're right: they probably used the t-shirts two years in a row... What was your lecture about?Anonymous
January 11, 2011
"Power Debugging" was the usual talk I gave at these.