Operation: Bug storm

TTTO Tom Smith’s “Operation: Desert Storm”

The coffe’s burning and black when it’s poured in the cup

My gut is churning as this is the tenth I drink up

Nothing to do, but to drink this, or else I will sleep

I can’t afford that, or go home, in this I’m stuck deep

The bugs that I have must be fixed ere release

Before they are solved I will not have much peace

I’ll get that thing to work if this is the last thing I do

If Murphy’s Laws are religion, I must be a saint.

For every pointer that’s good, well, it suddenly ain’t

A thousand errors and warnings in every compile

And as I see this I find I must choke down some bile

From off-by-one-errors to bugs in design

There must be an error in each second line

I’ll get that thing to work if this is the last thing I do

The hours go by, the clock says that it’s almost two

And by tommorow, I think that the deadline is due

Got little time left, the code still is far off from done

My work’s not ended, my God, it is hardly begun

But my super genius will fix all that crap,

And all that I need is avoiding a nap

And I’ll get it working – perhaps I should try something new.

My debugger crashed, and I’m left with only my screams

My printing of logs worked just fine, until I mixed the streams

My screen had blue death, it was weird, I’m not using MS

My hard drive is filled with the files that I wrote from this mess

But I’m smarter, I’m stronger, it’s just a machine

Why does it insist not to do what I mean

And I’ll get that thing to work if it’s the last thing I do!

…. Eureka! That’s it!

I SHOULD USE LISP!