December 25th, 2010
Carol of the Bytes
Hark! How the bytes
Word-aligned bytes
They seem to say,
“Throw the dump away”
HEXmas is here
Stringing pointers here
Addresses new and old
Values will hold
Load reg and store
There will be more
Data they bring
All computing
One seems to clear
Words of code near
Don’t know where they’re from
Filling the ROM
Oh how they confound,
No one makes a sound,
O’er here and there,
Debugging everywhere,
Confusing the thing
Deadlines that sting
Failure they fear
HEXmas is here
Merry, merry, merry, merry HEXmas
Merry, merry, merry, merry HEXmas
Data they send
Debug without end
Their joy on hold
Till it’s solved
Load reg and store
Don’t know the original song? Here you go:
And just because someone did, here’s a metal version:
