Subject: : Software Wizard
Parody-of: : Pinball Wizard
Ever since I was a freshman
I've played with DEC machines.
In Jacks Hall or at CERAS,
I'm mainly to be seen.
But I ain't seen nothing like him
He's the top of every stack.
That's deaf, dumb and blind he is,
Sure codes the neatest hacks.
He sits in a stupor,
Becomes part of the machine.
The stuff he writes is super
And he never sees the screen.
His code's pure inspiration,
Bugs are all it lacks.
That's deaf, dumb and blind he is,
Sure codes the neatest hacks.
He's a software wizard.
He programs quite a show.
A software wizard,
And king of all I/O.
K.L.: How do you think he does it?
R.G.: I don't know.
R.K.: What makes him so good?
Ain't got no distractions,
Don't hear the keys or bell,
Don't eat, don't sleep, just programs.
In classes: don't do well.
But every time he's paged out,
He always gets swapped back.
That's deaf, dumb and blind he is,
Sure codes the neatest hacks.
(I thought I was the symbol table king,
But I just handed my MIDAS crown to him.)
Even with my favorite TECO, he can beat my best.
The OS logs him in, and he just does the rest.
His MACROs : never FAILing.
He's really got the "nack."
That's deaf, dumb and blind he is,
Sure codes the neatest hacks.
He's a software wizard.
He's SCOREing even more.
A software wizard,
To be in software lore.
(He's SCOREing more!
He's SCOREing more!!)