favourite-hacks

Title    : My Favorite Hacks
Original : My Favorite Things
Group    : Rodgers and Hammerstein (?)
Author   : Guy L. Steele Jr.
Intro    : 
Song     : 

                My Favorite Hacks
           [to be sung to the tune of
                          My Favorite Things
            from The Sound of Music]


Circular MAPCAR and ANDCA'd negation,
Indirect JMP auto-incrementation,
Tangled spaghetti embroidered in stacks:
These are a few of my favorite hacks.

Mismatched DEFINE-TERMIN pairs with .QUOTEing,
Misbalanced brackets for macroed remoting,
PDP-6's with chess tourney plaques:
These are a few of my favorite hacks.

LAMBDAs as GO TOs and spooling on TPLs,
Flip-flops and bit drops and TRCE's in triples,
Crufty heuristics that prune minimax:
These are a few of my favorite hacks.

When the bugs strike,
When the disks crash,
When I read this verse,
I simply remember my favorite hacks
And then I feel even worse!

                -- The Great Quux
                     (with apologies to
                        Rodgers and Hammerstein)