Warning: I’m not a professional guitarist!

ThinkingTime by Abner Ballardo

Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

Links:

• Java Song
• The day tha data died
• Any Lane

Search at youtube for more videos,…. I need to sleep!

Somos Programadores

¿Algún peruano se animará a mostrar su talento musical con una canción sobre algún tema de tecnologías de información?

You can download the song here. Do you want to sing?

God wrote in Lisp code

I was taught assembler
in my second year of school.
It’s kinda like construction work –
with a toothpick for a tool.
So when I made my senior year,
I threw my code away,
And learned the way to program
that I still prefer today.

Now, some folks on the Internet

put their faith in C++.

They swear that it’s so powerful,

it’s what God used for us.

And maybe it lets mortals dredge

their objects from the C.

But I think that explains

why only God can make a tree.

For God wrote in Lisp code

When he filled the leaves with green.

The fractal flowers and recursive roots:

The most lovely hack I’ve seen.

And when I ponder snowflakes,

never finding two the same,

I know God likes a language

with its own four-letter name.

Now, I’ve used a SUN under Unix,

so I’ve seen what C can hold.

I’ve surfed for Perls, found what Fortran’s for,

Got that Java stuff down cold.

Though the chance that I’d write COBOL code

is a SNOBOL’s chance in Hell.

And I basically hate hieroglyphs,

so I won’t use APL.

Now, God must know all these languages,

and a few I haven’t named.

But the Lord made sure, when each sparrow falls,

that its flesh will be reclaimed.

And the Lord could not count grains of sand

with a 32-bit word.

Who knows where we would go to

if Lisp weren’t what he preferred?

And God wrote in Lisp code

Every creature great and small.

Don’t search the disk drive for man.c,

When the listing’s on the wall.

And when I watch the lightning burn

Unbelievers to a crisp,

I know God had six days to work,

So he wrote it all in Lisp.

Yes, God had a deadline.

So he wrote it all in Lisp.

The first time I listened to The Java Posse podcast, I thought its intro music was weird and I didn’t pay much attention to it. Last week, I downloaded another episode and listened to the song more carefully. To my surprise, the song lyrics were about Java!!

To satisfy my curiosity, I searched about this song in Google and found in Dave Brillhart‘s blog a post with a link to download the Java Song!. Dave Brillhart said:

I think Sun employees wrote and recorded that song. Anyone recall who? A verse near the end states: “Nobody can tell you what the future may bring…”. Well, that was 8 years ago. Check this out!

After reading all the description of Java Posse episodies, I found this information:

“Java” the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, “Ja-da.” Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.

You can download the song here. Do you want to sing?

Java by “Loose Bruce” Kerr

Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

It’s not a cup of coffee but it’s hot as can be

Came pourin’ through the Gates on a “Big Mac” Nealy

Singin’, Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

Microsoft thought Java really could be a threat

Java through the Windows maybe put them in debt

Gates, he took a license but he altered the feel

Java members all said, “Bill, you’re outa the deal!”

Singin’, Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

It’s like a cup of coffee ’cause it’s tasty and fresh

But it’s not really Java if the flavors don’t mesh

Pure Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

Microsoft released a browser, Java was there

The Sun, it rose and lit up what was really a dare

The RMI, the JNI were missing and lost

Scott said, “Bill, you broke your promise, Now pay the cost!”

Bill said, “Hey, my recipe is richer than yours”

Scott said, “I own the coffee shop, sit down and I’ll pour”

Pour Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

Nobody can tell yet what the future may bring

All we know is Java goes jing-jing-jing

It goes Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

(Scott really means it)

Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing

(Bill you better believe it)

Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing