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1.1     ! root        1: Date: Tue, 6 Oct 87 08:52:07 PDT
        !             2: To: [email protected]
        !             3: From: Lynn Slater <[email protected]>
        !             4: Sender: [email protected]
        !             5: Organization: Silvar-Lisco, 1080 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025-1053
        !             6: Phone.......: (415) 853-6336 (Office); (415) 796-4149 (Home)
        !             7: Subject: GDB sing-along
        !             8: 
        !             9: 
        !            10: Somebody asked us what was GDB.  With apologies to Oscar Hemmerstein
        !            11: II, Richard Rodgers, and Julie Andrews, we offered the following reply:
        !            12: 
        !            13: Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start,
        !            14:   When you're learning to sing, its Do, Re, Mi;
        !            15:   When you're learning to code, its G,  D,   B.
        !            16:                        (background) G,  D,   B.
        !            17:   The first three letters just happen to be, G, D, B.
        !            18:                        (background) G,  D,   B.
        !            19: 
        !            20: (Chorus)
        !            21:    G!,    GNU!, it's Stallman's hope,
        !            22:    
        !            23:    B,     a break I set myself.
        !            24:    
        !            25:    D,     debug that rotten code,
        !            26:    
        !            27:    Run,   a far, far way to go.
        !            28:    
        !            29:    Print, to see what you have done,
        !            30:    
        !            31:    Set,   a patch that follows print.
        !            32: 
        !            33:    Quit,  and recompile your code  - - -
        !            34:    
        !            35: That will bring it back to G,
        !            36:                             D,
        !            37:                              B,
        !            38:                                <link>
        !            39:  
        !            40: (Resume from the Chorus)
        !            41: 
        !            42: 
        !            43: :-)  Joel Bion, Mark Baushke, and Lynn Slater :-)
        !            44: 

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