Pain and poetry

In response to a colleague's experimentation with Visual Dot Net, I decided to pick up the pen and continue my leg-pulling in a more poetic stylie. Enjoy!


The world has experienced a run time error and is about to shut down
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I used to work with BBC
But soon that got too hard for me.
I tried with sinclair basic, but,
I got stuck in a basic rut
I tried to code, I tried to hack
Then DOT NET rode in on horseback

Just as LISP had sent me reeling,
CLOS had given me the feeling
Someting wasn't right with COBOL
Microsoft were going global.

And in the midst, there was I
Struggling with CGI
I couldn't make it work in C
And PERL was much to hard for me.

For months I fought this scripting strife
Then Bill walked in and saved my life
He saved my time and energy
By introducing ASP.

Now since that time, the story's plain.
My websites never worked again
Any page I load will freeze,
But writing them is such a breeze!

So the answer to your scripting hell
Isn't python, awk or shell
To rule the world from your PC,
Abandon Linux, follow me!

It isn't cheap, but you will find
That DOT NET can free your mind
As javascript and PHP
Fail and die like JSP.

And now that we don't have to think,
And Linux can't kick up a stink,
Because without finiancial backing.
They can only keep on hacking.

We're left behind to wreck the roost
Whilst Bill and Steve enjoy the boost
Your sites might freeze, but don't forget
How easy it is with VISUAL DOT NET !!



christo 05/11/02

LOL

My Javascript professor went to show us VS.NET as a means of coding JavaScript in an IDE. When he opened it, he got a message saying that it had to update the help files. After a few minutes, he tried to kill it, but then VS.NET locked and crashed. Then, a second VS.NET popped up all on it's own, plus a third one that he had opened to replace the first one that crashed. The second one eventually froze, took out the third one, then a fourth one popped up that actually stayed.

Ultimately, this culminated in him pointing out that there was no simple way to just open a page, write some HTML and JavaScript, and preview it. Finally, after prodding students with extra credit (which I had no interest in earning.. I've got a 100 ), one guy found out how to do it in some big walkaround sort of way

If that's any indication of how .NOT languages work.. count me OUT! I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I think anything that decended from BASIC just shouldn't be doing web scripting