She's Always a Hacker

Date: : 17 Feb 1981 2043-PST
From: : K.Kanef at LOTS (Bob Kanefsky)
Subject: : She's Always a Hacker
Parody-of: : She's Always a Woman (by Billy Joel)
She can kill all your files;
She can freeze with a frown.
And a wave of her hands brings the whole system down.
And she works on her code until ten after three.
She lives like a bat but she's always a hacker to me.

She'll use MDDT--
She can foo, bar, and baz it.
You can't give her a bit 'cause she already has it.
But you'll take what she writes you as long as it's free.
Yeah, she works like a slave but she's always a hacker to me.

define chorus <
   Oh, she takes care of herself.
   She can wait, if she wants,
   At the head of the queue.
   Oh, and she never logs out,
   But she never logs in
   'Til it's well after two.
>

chorus

And she'll write for the system a jsys that hashes.
Then she'll carelessly break it and laugh when it crashes.
But her code runs as fast and as slow as can be.
Blame it all on the load, 'cause she's always a hacker to me.

[hum]

chorus

She's frequently wheeled, then it's suddenly cleared.
But she can do as she pleases, as you've always feared.
And she won't go away 'til she's earned her degree.
And the most she will do is STI keystrokes at you
But she's always a hacker to me.

[hum]