I have been a Hacker

[To the tune of "Love's Been Good to Me"]


CHORUS:		I have been a Hacker,
		Coding night and day,
		Through a hundred crashes,
		Hoping there's a "way."
		Still I'll type CONTINUE.
		I say this, with a shrug,
		For once in awhile along the "way,"
		I get to crush a bug.


		There was this bug, in EMACS,
		Within a subroutine.
		Type control-V two times,
		The screen would blank out clean,
		And half your file was transfered to NUL:
		(Oh boy! Was that a pain!)
		I switched a mask and pointer's bit,
		Now no one has complained!

		CHORUS

		There was a time, a user,
		Walked into 105.
		He couldn't "print no output!
		What is this stupid jive!"
		But I explained that all was well here,
		(He only muttered "Ugh!")
		For, you see, in PASCAL that's
		A feature, not a bug.

		CHORUS