Stop me before I filk again

[maradydd]

This is entirely my fault. Feel free to throw tomatoes, but no rocks please.

(To the tune of "The Wild Rover". Apologies to Dennis Ritchie and people who don't like folk music. Also, the scansion and end rhyme go to hell in the third verse; sorry about that.)

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.

Feel free to add new verses.

Comments

[michiexile]

Hilarious!
Wonderful!
Well filked indeed!

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I am in no position to throw tomatoes, or even cast asparagus. :)

(I had several moments of confusion before I realized that you'd said "Wild Rover" not "Gypsy Rover"--the latter of which _really_ doesn't work with those lyrics. :) )

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Hah! No, definitely not the right meter at all.

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

That's worthy of a couple of bushels of tomatoes.

Mary I forward it the Mudcat Cafe and the SF Harmony List? With proper attribution, of course.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Certainly! Share and enjoy.

[drcuriosity]

Love your work :-)

Saw a Pythonesque bouncer, with a face like a fist
Who could not comprehend I was on the guest list
Many variable arguments counted for naught
When I looked at the whitespace my bar tab had bought

And it's (cons car cdr),
Mapcar and lambda -- no more
Will I be a C coder, no never, no more.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Hah, excellent!

Clearly we also need verses for Ruby, Haskell, and other languages with more or less support for FP idioms.

[coyotenefarious.livejournal.com]

Ruel.

[marapfhile.livejournal.com]

do you go to filk cons? consonance (http://consonance.org/) is this weekend, and in your area.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Alas, I am not currently where my userinfo page says I am. I should really fix that. Sounds like a lot of fun, though!