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by 082349872349872 1275 days ago

  Back into my TECO going, with my pounding heart now slowing,
  Soon again I heard a feeping, somewhat louder than before.
  "Surely," said I, "surely this is some strange bug of RMS's
  Which an interrupt professes, though I have no other job;
  Let me then ask DDT if it thinks there's another job --
          'Tis a bug, and nothing more!"

  Reclaimer, spare that tree!
  Take not a single bit!
  It used to point to me,
  Now I'm protecting it.
  It was the reader's CONS
  That made it, paired by dot;
  Now, GC, for the nonce,
  Thou shalt reclaim it not.

  Quaxity quuxity,
  Backus's BNF
  Drives a preprocessor,
  Generates code.
  Parsing is specified
  Metasyntactically;
  Writing it's easy, but
  reading, I'm snowed.
(if any of these snippets struck your fancy, look up that Fortress dude; there's much more)