Title    : The Sound of FORTRAN
Original : The Sound of Music
Group    : Rodgers and Hammerstein
Author   : Guy L. Steele Jr.
Intro    :
Song     :

	       The Sound of FORTRAN

	    [to be sung to the tune of
		The Sound of Music]


My programming day has come to an end, I know,
But one minor bug still restrains me, though,
So back to me desk I stumble,
More coffee I pour in my mug,
So back to me desk I stumble,
More coffee I pour in my mug,
And I drink, and I think, and I program
Just one more hack, just one more hairy kludge
To remove that bug.

Machines are alive with the sound of FORTRAN,
With numbers they've crunched for a thousand hours;
They add and subtract to the sound of FORTRAN,
And raise fractions to unheard of powers.

My code's full of REAL statements, INTEGER and COMPLEX too,
	 duplicated thrice oe'r,
And so intermixed with the WRITEs and READs
	 to cause errors galore;
Arrays are declared of dimension six, but indexed minus two;
Computed GO TOs are last in the range of a DO!

I now recompile my corrected programs;
I know I will get what compiled before --
My code will be blessed with the sound of FORTRAN,
And I'll lose once more.

And I'll lose once more.


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

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@