Klarinet Archive - Posting 000856.txt from 1999/06

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] index of "The Clarinet" [totally off topic now]
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:23:38 -0400

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
> Now, it's a Lewis Carroll-ism, specifically from the poem "Jabberwocky,"
> maybe the greatest use of nonsense syllables in English.
>
> And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
> Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
> O frabjous day! Calloo-callay,
> he chortled in his joy!

I can't help it: here's the Computer-speak version of "Jabberwocky":

"Jargontalk" by Larry Cohen with apologies to Lewis Carroll

Twas unix and the C++
Did compile and load upon the vax:
All Ritchie was the Kernighan,
And Lisp ran in GNU EMACS

Beware the Jargontalk my son.
The mac that talks, the dull PC
Beware the Amiga, and shun
the voluminous PDP

He took his listed code in hand:
Long time the pointer bug he sought-
So rested he by the coke machine,
and stood a while in thought.

And as in nerdish thought he stood,
the Jargontalk, with awk and grep,
Came geeking through the Cobol wood,
and edlin as it schlepped.

One two! One two! and through and through
the line printer went clickity clack!
And with a meg of memory dump
He pulled an allnight hack.

And hast thou slain the Jargontalk?
telnet to me, my nerdish boy!
Copyleft Gnu! Callooh! Callay!
He deroffed in his joy.

Twas unix and the C++
Did compile and load upon the vax:
All Ritchie was the Kernighan,
And Lisp ran in GNU EMACS
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Mark Charette@-----.

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