The Hacker’s Song
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I’m a hacker and I’m OK
I work all night and I sleep all day.
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I wrote some hacks in APL,
each on a single line.
They’re mutually recursive,
and run in n-squared time.
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Oh, he’s a hacker and he’s ok,
He works all night and he sleeps all day.
I’m a hacker and I’m ok,
I work all night and I sleep all day.
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I wrote two hacks in Macro,
with UUO’s galore.
One plays Nim on the console lights
while the other zeros core.
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I wrote a hack in SNOBOL
with FORTRAN subroutines.
It spits out trashy stories
for ladies’ magazines.
(chorus)
I wrote some hacks in InterLisp,
they barely fit in core.
The swapper thrashed its guts out,
So now it runs no more.
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I wrote a hack in microcode,
with a goto on each line.
It runs as fast as Superman,
But not quite every time.
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I wrote some hacks in Ada,
and still can’t run them yet.
Do you suppose we’ll see that day?
On it I would not bet.
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I wrote a hack for UNIX,
when it was still in vogue.
It knows the tricks to PacMan,
and plays mean games of Rogue.
(chorus)
I wrote some hacks, distributed,
across our neat gateway.
Each one of its 10 functions
kills RIG in a different way!
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I wrote some hacks in Mlisp,
to edit files of root.
It writes them back no-execute,
and now it won’t reboot!
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I wrote some hacks to manage jobs
with PLITS and IPC.
Its very first activity
was firing the faculty.
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I wrote some hacks with P and V
to synchronize my life.
Now I can’t use the bathroom,
I’m deadlocked with my wife!
(chorus)
I wrote a hack(in theory),
it may not ever halt.
But if it does, just watch out…
[Fatal Error: Infinite Page Fault]
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I wrote a hack with hough transforms
for the folks at DoD.
It’ll guide their fancy missles
to Washington D.C.
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I’m a hacker and I’m OK
I work all night and I sleep all day.
I’ll have a system of my own someday,
that’ll run my code in a hacked up way.
–tvr
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