Title    : My Favorite Hacks
Original : My Favorite Things
Group    : Rodgers and Hammerstein (?)
Author   : Guy L. Steele Jr.
Intro    :
Song     :

		 My Favorite Hacks
	    [to be sung to the tune of
			   My Favorite Things
	     from The Sound of Music]


Circular MAPCAR and ANDCA'd negation,
Indirect JMP auto-incrementation,
Tangled spaghetti embroidered in stacks:
These are a few of my favorite hacks.

Mismatched DEFINE-TERMIN pairs with .QUOTEing,
Misbalanced brackets for macroed remoting,
PDP-6's with chess tourney plaques:
These are a few of my favorite hacks.

LAMBDAs as GO TOs and spooling on TPLs,
Flip-flops and bit drops and TRCE's in triples,
Crufty heuristics that prune minimax:
These are a few of my favorite hacks.

When the bugs strike,
When the disks crash,
When I read this verse,
I simply remember my favorite hacks
And then I feel even worse!

		 -- The Great Quux
		      (with apologies to
			 Rodgers and Hammerstein)


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