P.E.R.L. -- The Village Mongers

Picture of Larry Wall

I'm surprised that noone did this before, given how well I think Larry would fit into the group ...

In true free software spirit, if you have any improvements or suggestions, let me know and maybe I'll incorporate them. (And yes, I know Perl is Perl, not P.E.R.L. ...)

The Village People

P.E.R.L.

Lyrics by Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>
(with apologies to Larry Wall and the Village People)


  Young geek, there's no need to use C,
  I said, young geek, you can ditch PHP,
  I said, young geek, 'cause you're stuck with MS,
  There's no need to be unhappy.

  Young geek, there's a tongue you can grok,
  I said, young geek, when you're short on your luck,
  Trust the camel, and I'm sure you will find,
  Many ways to code the same thing.

CHORUS:
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  It has everything for young geeks to enjoy,
  You can hang out with all the boys.
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  Just scrap sed awk and shell,
  Prune your process table,
  You can code whatever you feel.

  Young geek, are you listening to me?
  I said, young geek, what do you want to be?
  I said, young geek, you can increase your hits,
  but you've got to know this one thing:

  No geek, codes it all by himself,
  I said, young geek, put your source on the web,
  And just go chat, on # p - e - r - l
  I'm sure they can help you today.

CHORUS:
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  It has everything for young geeks to enjoy,
  You can hang out with all the boys.
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  Just scrap sed awk and shell,
  Prune your process table,
  You can code whatever you feel.

  Young geek, I was once a w4r3z d00d,
  I said, I was cursed and plagued with reboots,
  I felt, no b1ff, cared about my software,
  I felt the whole world was bug-gy.

  That's when someone came up to me,
  and said young geek, take a look at CPAN,
  There's a language, it's called P.E.R.L.
  It can start you back on your way.

  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  It has everything for young geeks to enjoy.
  You can hang out with all the boys.

CHORUS AND FADEOUT:
  P.E.R.L.
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  It's fun to hack at your P.E.R.L.
  Young geek, young geek, there's no need to use C
  Young geek, young geek, you can ditch PHP

  P.E.R.L.
  just go and hack P.E.R.L.
  Young geek, young geek, I was once a w4r3z d00d
  Young geek, young geek, I was plagued with reboots

  P.E.R.L.
  P.E.R.L.
  P.E.R.L.
  P.E.R.L.


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