Title    : PLIate's Dream
Original : Pilate's Dream
Group    : from Jesus Christ Superstar
Author   : Guy L. Steele Jr.
Intro    :
Song     :

		  PLIate's Dream

	    [to be sung to the tune of
		  Pilate's Dream
	   from Jesus Christ Superstar]


I dreamed I was a brand new language,
The ultimate in speed;
I handled strings as fast as RPG,
And twice as easily.

I crunched numbers like COBOL,
Trees like APL,
And FORTRAN loaned its FORMATs and GO TOs,
The cause of many screws.

And then a man said, "Now we'll write a monitor,
With Multics what it's for.
Our project is begun;
We'll code in PL/I."

Then I saw thousands of coders
Searching for their bugs,
And then I heard them mentioning my name
And leaving me the blame.


		 -- The Great Quux
		      (with apologies to
			 Rice and Webber)

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