Twelfth bug of Christmas
For the twelfth bug of Christmas, my manager said to me,
Tell them it’s a feature
Say it’s not supported
Change the documentation
Blame it on the hardware
Find a way around it
Say they need an upgrade
Reinstall the software
Ask for a dump
Run with the debugger
Try to reproduce it
Ask them how they did it and
See if they can do it again.
Or maybe you would prefer the “ABCs of Unix”. It’s actually a pretty good introduction to Unix for a neophyte:
…S is for Spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for True, which does very little.
U is for Uniq, which is used after Sort, and
V is for Vi, which is hard to abort…
Or perhaps your taste runs to a computer programming song called “Write in C,” sung to the lyrics of the Beatles’ “Let It Be”:
A thousand people sware that T.P.
Seven is the one for me.
I hate the word PROCEDURE,
Write in C.
Be afraid. There are many, many more.
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