(to the tune of «SledgeHammer». Apologies to Peter Gabriel)
You could have some FORTRAN.
I will write your subroutine
You could have some C and Ada
I will rev up your machine
Why don’t you just hire me?
I’ll code anything you need
You can have some Pascal;
You type ‘IF’ and I’ll type ‘THEN’
You can have some Lisp code ‘EVAL’-ing
May the recursion never end!
(I wanna be your) Programmer!
Why don’t you use my code!
(Let me be your) Programmer!
Just compile and load, no problem
I can deal with SNOBOL
I can even handle APL
But I won’t deal with COBOL
No one can put me through that hell!
(I wanna be your) Programmer!
Go on and use my code
(So let me be your) Programmer!
Just compile and load, and run it
Hey, look at ME! (I’m a) Programmer!
An algorithms’ man
(So nice to be a) Programmer
I’m raking fifty grand, just writing
code.
Code.
Programmer!
(interlude)
