Tcl Poetry - a place for poems or other creative bits about (or in) Tcl.
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[Stu] 2004-05-14: "When I was a Lad" from H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan

 When I was a lad I served a term
 As coding grunt at a dot-com firm
 I used [read] quite often and then sometimes [gets]
 And I made my GUIs by [grid]ing my widg-ets
 (He made his GUIs by gridding his widg-ets!)
 I [grid]ded all my widgets so carefully
 That now I am a member of the TCT
 (He [grid]ded all his widgets so carefully, that now he is a member of the TCT!)
 
 As coding grunt I made such a stir
 That they gave me the post of a pro-gram-mer
 I prototyped in ANSI such as is my wont
 And I printed out my listings in a twelve point font
 (He printed out his listings in a twelve point font!)
 I printed out my listings so beautifully
 That now I am a member of the TCT
 (He printed out his listing so beautifully, that now he is a member of the TCT!)

 In crafting [proc]s I made such a name
 That a writer of TIPs I soon became
 The wheels in motion, my submission did set
 For the TIP approvalprocess on the In-ter-net
 (For the TIP approval process on the In-ter-net!)
 That TIP approval process did so well for me
 That now I am a member of the TCT
 (That TIP approval process did so well for he, that now he is a member of the TCT!)