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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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