msgid "HAKAWATHA - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> #: msgid "HAKAWATHA" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "with apologies to H.W. Longfellow" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "First, he sat and faced the console" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Faced the glowing, humming console" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Typed his login at the keyboard" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Typed his password (fourteen letters)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Waited till the system answered" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Waited long and cursed its slowness" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Oh, that irritating slowness —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a mollusc with lumbago)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Waited for what seemed like hours" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till the operating system" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Printed out the latest whinings" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "From the man called “superuser” —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Moanings that some third year students" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Played adventure games at lunchtimes," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Moanings the the Disc was nearly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(VERY nearly) full to bursting," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Growling that he wouldn't take it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Screaming that he'd get his own back" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "By deleting peoples' discfiles." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Next, came Hakawatha's “fortune”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Didn't find it very funny)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Then from “mailer” took a letter" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "From a fellow network hacker" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Who had penetrated ARPA" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All the way to Greenham Common —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Though his prowling through the filestore" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hadn't pleases the US Airforce —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So this friend, this network hacker," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Had to flee to Argentina" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Where he works on simulations" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Simulations of their army's" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Capture of the Falkland Islands)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Finally, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Started to type in a program." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "First, he thought for many minutes" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "What the Devil he should call it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So that later he'd remember" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "What it did and why he wrote it," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thought for many, many minutes," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thought too long, because the system" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "timed him out for doing nothing" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Timed him out and warned him sternly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Like an irate bus inspector" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "While you fumble for your ticket" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "When you could have SWORN you'd put it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Safely in an inside pocket)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So the wretched Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Had to start from the beginning" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Type the login and the password —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Found the system even slower" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Even slower than the first time" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Just as though some evil spirit" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Had reprogrammed all of Unix" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In the language LISP or OCCAM —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Which among the cognoscenti" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Are not famed for running quickly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Rather for their ponderous slowness" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a third year CS student" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Trying to make out a theorem" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Such as that of Church and Rosser)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "After many, many minutes" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "After risking death from boredom" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "On the screen, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Saw a message from the Network" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Saying there were no free consoles," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Telling him to just forget it," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Telling him to come back later" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Say, two-thirty in the morning" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Preferably a Sunday morning," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Sunday, in the long vacation)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But at this, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "spoke in language full of fury:" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "“I would rather write in COBOL" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "On a Sinclair ZX80!”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus, the Gods heard Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Heard the Thunder of his anger" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Heard him damn the “superuser”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To a post in Social Science" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Heard him damn the Network to be" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Slowly boiled in caustic soda" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Heard him curse the sort of people" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Who use LISP instead of Ada" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Ada is a complex language" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Copyright, Defence Department" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "It has got a formal syntax" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Rather longer than the Bible" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But semantically there's nothing" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But informal chitter-chatter." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Reader! Use it at your peril!)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "And the Gods took pity on him" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Though they quite deplored the language" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Quite deplored the filthy language" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Utilised by Hakawatha)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Brought about a console failure" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Of some wimp in Economics" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Freed a line so he could use it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Made his screen display a message:" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "“Sorry, we were only joking" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Please log in and type your password" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "We'll be with you in a jiffy.”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus assuaged did Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Type his login and his password" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Read again the Jeremiads" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Of the manic “superuser”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Read his fortune (still not funny)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "And prepared to type his program." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Still, alas, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "had no notion what to call it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "What to call this wretched program" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So that he'd remember later" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "What it did and why he wrote it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But the dreaded timeout th=eatened" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So to save himself from bother" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "He just called it “program 7”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Not a name that had much meaning" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Signifying nearly nothing" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "— Though it has the real advantage" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "That it fits in with this metre)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Meaning to <tt>mv</tt> it later" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "When he'd though of something lYeditor he entered" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hakawatha then typed quickly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Very, very, VERY quickly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Swifter than a third-year student" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Trying to avoid his tutor" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Swifter than a “Sun” ‘reporter’" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "On the track of something smutty" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like an eagle flew his fingers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Only pausing several moments" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "While he taxed his recollection" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "For his algorithm's details" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "These he knew but only vaguely" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(As the mists that on the sunrise" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Cloak the lofty mountian summit" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "As the blur that s-nd-rs printers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Make instead of underlining" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "As the third year students' notio" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "n Of the proof of Turing's Theorem)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "These deliberations ended" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hakawatha typed yet faster" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Missing quotes and semicolons" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Missing many closing brackets" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Comments, these he left for later" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till he understood his program" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Understood what he'd been doing)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Confident that the compiler" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Would pick up the syntax errors" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus, the program grew like wildfire" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like the spread of some contagious" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Malady, like AIDS or BASIC" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Or as miners ceased their striking" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In the reign of Arthur Scargill." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hakawatha typed like fury" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Clatter, clatter went the keyboard" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a set of manic dentures" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So the morning, so the lunchtime," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So the afternoon receded" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like the superuser's hairline" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "When beset by third year students" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All intent to learn his password" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the stars were twinkling" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the pubs were open" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till Security, reminded" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Tapped upon his door and warned him" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "" "“Sorry, sir, but all late workers Have to sign the sign-in book, " "sir.”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Even then, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hardly heard what he was saying" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Very red and glazed his eyes were" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Cramped and aching were his fingers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Void and rumbling was his stomach" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Cold and sweaty was his forehead" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Warm and humming was the console" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a cow with indigestion" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thanked Security and told him" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "That he'd do it “in a minute”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "That he'd “totally forgotten" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All that bureaucratic nonsense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In the white-heat of creation”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Asked to warn him if the building" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Burnt down in the next few minutes" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thanked him for his “kind attention”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Then, ignoring him completely," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Turned again and hit the keyboard" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "With his swift and able fingers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the night lay heavy" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the pubs were closing" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the job was finished." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Next my Hakawatha summoned" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "The appropriate compiler" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Asking it to take his program" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "And attempt its execution" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Listing any syntax errors —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Should by any chance there be some —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In a file that he called “errors”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Stunning was the inovation" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Vouchsafed by this choice of naming)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Asked it please to run in background." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Swiftly grew the file named “errors”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till it seemed to grow much larger" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Than the file called “program 7”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger was the file named “errors”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger than the largest mountain" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger than the cost of Trident" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger than the monstrous ego" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Of that God whom men name D--kstr-" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger even than the software" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "People call the Unix mailer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Though, perhaps, exaggeration," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Or that licence named poetic" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Leads me to commit an error" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Since we know the Unix mailer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To be bigger and more faulty" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Than the liner named Titanic)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Worried now grew Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Tride to kill the background process" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Tried to bring it to the foreground" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Tried to say to the compiler" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "“That'll do, guv, for the moment”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All unheedingly the process" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Gobbled bytes like no-one's business" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till it seemed as though the system" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Would collapse from sheer exhaustion" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "From the quantity of page swops" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Needed by this tireless process." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Desperate grew Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Vivid, yet again, his curses" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Purpled the attendant shadows." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus the Gods heard Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Listened in to the bad language" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thought that they had better stop it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Firmly told the Unix system" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Firmly, to stop all its nonsense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Firmly, to abort the process." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Now, this program had a pointer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointing to a record union" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointing sometimes to a REAL" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Or an INTEGER or BOOLEAN" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointing sometimes to a pointer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To ARRAY of FILE of RECORD" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Each of which in turn had pointers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Each of which, in mad recursion," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointed madly at each other" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Like a crowd of Sunday tabloids" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointing the accusing finger" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "At each other's lack of morals" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a crowd of left-wing students" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All accusing one another" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Of revisionistic leanings)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In this mess of pure confusion" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(with what seemed to Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "At the time a stroke of genius" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But which now he couldn't clearly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Understand why he had done it)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "He had placed a simple statement" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Placed a simple-looking statement" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Re-assigning the FIRST pointer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To some other, and he couldn't" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "QUITE remember where he'd put it," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Felt that this might be the reason" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Why his program wasn't working" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Wasn't doing what he wanted." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "This occasioned some frustration" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Caused the noble Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To commit profane expletives" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Caused him to cry out “Debug her!”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Or, I THINK that's what he shouted)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "“There are easier methods, surely," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Methods for the computation" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Computation of factorial!" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Stuff this for a game of soldiers!" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "I am going to the staff club" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "For a pint of Romfords' Glory!”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus departed Hakawatha." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "Hope you like it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "Paul Boyd" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "—" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "Submitted by Paul Boyd." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "Not sure where this came from, i've had it around for well over 10 years now" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <p> msgid "This joke is also available in <a href=\"/fun/jokes/haka\">plain text</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <p> msgid "<a href=\"/fun/humor.html\">Other humor</a> in the GNU Humor Collection." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <h4> msgid "Disclaimer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <p> msgid "" "The joke on this page was obtained from the FSF's <a " "href=\"http://lists.gnu.org/\">email archives</a> of the GNU Project." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <p> msgid "The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this joke." msgstr "" #. 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# LANGUAGE translation of http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/hakawatha.html # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is distributed under the same license as the original article. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: hakawatha.html\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2012-06-10 04:26-0300\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING" #. type: Content of: msgid "HAKAWATHA - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> #: msgid "HAKAWATHA" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "with apologies to H.W. Longfellow" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "First, he sat and faced the console" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Faced the glowing, humming console" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Typed his login at the keyboard" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Typed his password (fourteen letters)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Waited till the system answered" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Waited long and cursed its slowness" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Oh, that irritating slowness —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a mollusc with lumbago)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Waited for what seemed like hours" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till the operating system" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Printed out the latest whinings" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "From the man called “superuser” —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Moanings that some third year students" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Played adventure games at lunchtimes," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Moanings the the Disc was nearly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(VERY nearly) full to bursting," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Growling that he wouldn't take it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Screaming that he'd get his own back" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "By deleting peoples' discfiles." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Next, came Hakawatha's “fortune”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Didn't find it very funny)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Then from “mailer” took a letter" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "From a fellow network hacker" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Who had penetrated ARPA" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All the way to Greenham Common —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Though his prowling through the filestore" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hadn't pleases the US Airforce —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So this friend, this network hacker," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Had to flee to Argentina" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Where he works on simulations" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Simulations of their army's" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Capture of the Falkland Islands)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Finally, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Started to type in a program." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "First, he thought for many minutes" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "What the Devil he should call it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So that later he'd remember" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "What it did and why he wrote it," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thought for many, many minutes," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thought too long, because the system" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "timed him out for doing nothing" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Timed him out and warned him sternly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Like an irate bus inspector" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "While you fumble for your ticket" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "When you could have SWORN you'd put it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Safely in an inside pocket)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So the wretched Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Had to start from the beginning" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Type the login and the password —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Found the system even slower" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Even slower than the first time" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Just as though some evil spirit" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Had reprogrammed all of Unix" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In the language LISP or OCCAM —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Which among the cognoscenti" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Are not famed for running quickly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Rather for their ponderous slowness" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a third year CS student" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Trying to make out a theorem" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Such as that of Church and Rosser)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "After many, many minutes" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "After risking death from boredom" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "On the screen, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Saw a message from the Network" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Saying there were no free consoles," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Telling him to just forget it," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Telling him to come back later" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Say, two-thirty in the morning" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Preferably a Sunday morning," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Sunday, in the long vacation)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But at this, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "spoke in language full of fury:" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "“I would rather write in COBOL" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "On a Sinclair ZX80!”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus, the Gods heard Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Heard the Thunder of his anger" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Heard him damn the “superuser”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To a post in Social Science" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Heard him damn the Network to be" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Slowly boiled in caustic soda" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Heard him curse the sort of people" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Who use LISP instead of Ada" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Ada is a complex language" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Copyright, Defence Department" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "It has got a formal syntax" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Rather longer than the Bible" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But semantically there's nothing" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But informal chitter-chatter." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Reader! Use it at your peril!)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "And the Gods took pity on him" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Though they quite deplored the language" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Quite deplored the filthy language" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Utilised by Hakawatha)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Brought about a console failure" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Of some wimp in Economics" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Freed a line so he could use it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Made his screen display a message:" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "“Sorry, we were only joking" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Please log in and type your password" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "We'll be with you in a jiffy.”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus assuaged did Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Type his login and his password" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Read again the Jeremiads" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Of the manic “superuser”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Read his fortune (still not funny)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "And prepared to type his program." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Still, alas, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "had no notion what to call it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "What to call this wretched program" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So that he'd remember later" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "What it did and why he wrote it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But the dreaded timeout th=eatened" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So to save himself from bother" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "He just called it “program 7”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Not a name that had much meaning" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Signifying nearly nothing" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "— Though it has the real advantage" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "That it fits in with this metre)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Meaning to <tt>mv</tt> it later" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "When he'd though of something lYeditor he entered" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hakawatha then typed quickly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Very, very, VERY quickly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Swifter than a third-year student" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Trying to avoid his tutor" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Swifter than a “Sun” ‘reporter’" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "On the track of something smutty" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like an eagle flew his fingers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Only pausing several moments" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "While he taxed his recollection" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "For his algorithm's details" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "These he knew but only vaguely" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(As the mists that on the sunrise" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Cloak the lofty mountian summit" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "As the blur that s-nd-rs printers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Make instead of underlining" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "As the third year students' notio" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "n Of the proof of Turing's Theorem)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "These deliberations ended" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hakawatha typed yet faster" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Missing quotes and semicolons" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Missing many closing brackets" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Comments, these he left for later" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till he understood his program" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Understood what he'd been doing)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Confident that the compiler" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Would pick up the syntax errors" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus, the program grew like wildfire" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like the spread of some contagious" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Malady, like AIDS or BASIC" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Or as miners ceased their striking" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In the reign of Arthur Scargill." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hakawatha typed like fury" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Clatter, clatter went the keyboard" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a set of manic dentures" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So the morning, so the lunchtime," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "So the afternoon receded" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like the superuser's hairline" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "When beset by third year students" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All intent to learn his password" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the stars were twinkling" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the pubs were open" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till Security, reminded" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Tapped upon his door and warned him" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "" "“Sorry, sir, but all late workers Have to sign the sign-in book, " "sir.”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Even then, my Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Hardly heard what he was saying" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Very red and glazed his eyes were" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Cramped and aching were his fingers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Void and rumbling was his stomach" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Cold and sweaty was his forehead" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Warm and humming was the console" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a cow with indigestion" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thanked Security and told him" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "That he'd do it “in a minute”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "That he'd “totally forgotten" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All that bureaucratic nonsense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In the white-heat of creation”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Asked to warn him if the building" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Burnt down in the next few minutes" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thanked him for his “kind attention”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Then, ignoring him completely," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Turned again and hit the keyboard" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "With his swift and able fingers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the night lay heavy" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the pubs were closing" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till at last the job was finished." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Next my Hakawatha summoned" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "The appropriate compiler" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Asking it to take his program" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "And attempt its execution" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Listing any syntax errors —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Should by any chance there be some —" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In a file that he called “errors”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Stunning was the inovation" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Vouchsafed by this choice of naming)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Asked it please to run in background." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Swiftly grew the file named “errors”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till it seemed to grow much larger" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Than the file called “program 7”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger was the file named “errors”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger than the largest mountain" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger than the cost of Trident" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger than the monstrous ego" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Of that God whom men name D--kstr-" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Larger even than the software" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "People call the Unix mailer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Though, perhaps, exaggeration," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Or that licence named poetic" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Leads me to commit an error" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Since we know the Unix mailer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To be bigger and more faulty" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Than the liner named Titanic)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Worried now grew Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Tride to kill the background process" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Tried to bring it to the foreground" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Tried to say to the compiler" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "“That'll do, guv, for the moment”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All unheedingly the process" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Gobbled bytes like no-one's business" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Till it seemed as though the system" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Would collapse from sheer exhaustion" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "From the quantity of page swops" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Needed by this tireless process." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Desperate grew Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Vivid, yet again, his curses" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Purpled the attendant shadows." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus the Gods heard Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Listened in to the bad language" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thought that they had better stop it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Firmly told the Unix system" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Firmly, to stop all its nonsense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Firmly, to abort the process." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Now, this program had a pointer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointing to a record union" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointing sometimes to a REAL" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Or an INTEGER or BOOLEAN" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointing sometimes to a pointer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To ARRAY of FILE of RECORD" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Each of which in turn had pointers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Each of which, in mad recursion," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointed madly at each other" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Like a crowd of Sunday tabloids" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Pointing the accusing finger" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "At each other's lack of morals" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Like a crowd of left-wing students" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "All accusing one another" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Of revisionistic leanings)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "In this mess of pure confusion" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(with what seemed to Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "At the time a stroke of genius" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "But which now he couldn't clearly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Understand why he had done it)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "He had placed a simple statement" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Placed a simple-looking statement" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Re-assigning the FIRST pointer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To some other, and he couldn't" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "QUITE remember where he'd put it," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Felt that this might be the reason" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Why his program wasn't working" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Wasn't doing what he wanted." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "This occasioned some frustration" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Caused the noble Hakawatha" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "To commit profane expletives" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Caused him to cry out “Debug her!”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "(Or, I THINK that's what he shouted)." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "“There are easier methods, surely," msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Methods for the computation" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Computation of factorial!" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Stuff this for a game of soldiers!" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "I am going to the staff club" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "For a pint of Romfords' Glory!”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><div><p> msgid "Thus departed Hakawatha." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "Hope you like it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "Paul Boyd" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "—" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "Submitted by Paul Boyd." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <blockquote><p> msgid "Not sure where this came from, i've had it around for well over 10 years now" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <p> msgid "This joke is also available in <a href=\"/fun/jokes/haka\">plain text</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <p> msgid "<a href=\"/fun/humor.html\">Other humor</a> in the GNU Humor Collection." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <h4> msgid "Disclaimer" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <p> msgid "" "The joke on this page was obtained from the FSF's <a " "href=\"http://lists.gnu.org/\">email archives</a> of the GNU Project." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <p> msgid "The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this joke." msgstr "" #. 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