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A long and winding tape
More Beatles lyrics. And while Yesterday isn’t the toughest song to rewrite, we admire the satirical pith of Bob Harle’s effort, all the way from the European Patent Office in The Hague.
‘Years Ago/Cobol programs were the way to go/Now there are languages that I don’t know/Yes I wrote programs years ago/Suddenly/The kids are coding Java and VB/I think I’ll take an MBA degree/Yes – management’s the way for me.’
We leave you with the melancholy of David Gouge’s rewording of The Long and Winding Road: ‘The non-rewinding tape/that spools across the floor/will never be of use/now it’s dumped its data store/No matter what they say/the database is toast/now that the backup’s gone/its memory’s just a ghost.’
Cheer up, it’s only a song.
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