Bin There, Coded That

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Original: Bin There, Dun That (Echo’s Children)

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I had regular expressions and I thought that I’d use Perl

But with at, bang, hash and dollar, when I look at it I hurl

When I woke up the next morning, and I tried to hack the code

I decided I can’t do it, and it’s time to hit the road

Chorus:

Bin there, dun that, learned when I should leave

Got the conference’s t-shirt, and the other stuff they give

Yes, I bin there, dun that, learned to how to indent

So now I code in Python and that’s how I pay my rent

The CEO demanded that our language be the same

As what everyone is using, and no matter if it’s lame

So now all our work is Java, and the code is enterprise

But we tried to scale it up and we were in for a surprise

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C plus plus is oriented, to objects, so they say

Just ask Alan Kay about it, he’ll explain it’s not the way

And when your code is full of templates, the compiler laughs at you

‘Cause the messages you get can be encoded jibb’rish goo

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Those old parenthic languages, they got no sense of style

You just write the AST trees, it gets old after a while

And with Lispish reader macros, code can change before you blink

When you try to read it later, it does not mean what you think

[Chorus]