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Favorite Techmas carols

• How Come There Is No Manual?
• Virtual Christmas
• 12 Days of (Microsoft) Christmas
• Bring a Disc
• The Bill Gates Song
• God Rest Ye Copland Programmers
• Not So Merry (Gentlemen)
• MIPS to the World
• Microsoft
• Jingle Bell (AOL)
• COBOL Coder
• Little Home Computer
• Perl White
• Blue Screen

Nights Before Christmas

• Computer Christmas
• Hacker's version
• Internet version
• Night Before Implementation
• Night Before Start-up
• Shift Before Christmas
• Silicon Impostor
• Worm Before Christmas

Man page for Christmas

Is Santa a sysadmin? You be the judge...

Perl White
Tune: Good King Wenceslas

Good keen hacker Larry Wall
Did a little thinkin'
Got it working, called it Perl
And threw the kitchen sink in
Loudly hummed the Net that night
Hacking on this too-el
Helping Larry get it right
And work it summat cru-u-el.

Perl will make each program step
Longer than you'd credit
Three lines make a poor-man's grep
Ten can be an edit
Seven sides a task can lunch
Of Titanic order
For this iceberg packs its punch
Nine-tenths under wa-a-ter.

Small-tool bigots will despise
All they see within her
But to their outraged surprise
That's why Perl's a winner
Gentle syshack, understand
You too can be that good
With this chainsaw in your hand
Every task is ma-atch-wood.

Lyrics © 1995, 1996, 2001 Martin J Carter