Twelfth bug of Christmas

For the twelfth bug of Christmas, my manager said to me,

   Tell them it’s a feature

   Say it’s not supported

   Change the documentation

   Blame it on the hardware

   Find a way around it

   Say they need an upgrade

   Reinstall the software

   Ask for a dump

   Run with the debugger

   Try to reproduce it

   Ask them how they did it and

   See if they can do it again.

Or maybe you would prefer the “ABCs of Unix”.  It’s actually a pretty good introduction to Unix for a neophyte:

…S is for Spell, which attempts to belittle, while

T is for True, which does very little.

U is for Uniq, which is used after Sort, and

V is for Vi, which is hard to abort…

Or perhaps your taste runs to a computer programming song called “Write in C,” sung to the lyrics of the Beatles’ “Let It Be”:

A thousand people sware that T.P.

Seven is the one for me.

I hate the word PROCEDURE,

Write in C.

Be afraid.  There are many, many more.