From the brilliant Meredith Patterson comes this bit of filk: Oh I've been a C coder for many an age And I've spent all my free time on pointers and rage But I like tail recursion much better than FOR So I never will be a C coder no more. And it's (cons car cdr), Mapcar and lambda -- no more Will I be a C coder, no never, no more. I saw Dennis Ritchie one night in a bar He had typedef'd his wallet to pointer to char At last call he went to pay up for his friends But he had no bounds checking and fell off the end And it's (cons car cdr), Mapcar and lambda -- no more Will I be a C coder, no never, no more. I first watched in silence, but I had a Scheme So I thunked down my Visa and a small trampoline At first no one there was quite sure what they'd seen But the girls saw my Sexp and came home with me. And it's (cons car cdr), Mapcar and lambda -- no more Will I be a C coder, no never, no more.
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