We Couldn’t Keep Up with Software…
It goes without saying that Billy Joel is such a genius. Any imitation of the classic We Didn’t Start the Fire faces this big problem of syncing rhythm and major events, milestones or key figures. Here are two sections that I have tried, but I don’t think it ever goes well with the melody:
Steve Jobs, Wozniac, Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds,
Apple II, MS DOS, Windows and LinuxK&R, Allan Kay, Strustroup, Larry Wall
B and C, Smalltalk, C plusplus, PerlShell script, awk, sed, Tcl, JavaScript
Regular expression, dynamic binding, slow executionSmarty, Mason, TT, Django, Rails of Ruby
MVC, IRC, XML and RPCWe couldn’t keep up with software
It was always rotting
Since the first bit’s been flipping
We couldn’t keep up with software
No we didn’t screw it
But we tried to refactor itRCS, CVS, subverting subversion
Arch, git, darcs, vss and PerforceD.O.M., D.R.M., C.O.M., lots of RAM
Mosaic, Netscape, Explorer, FirefoxLessig, Dick Hardt, Larry Page, Jimmy Wales,
Caterina, Kawasaki, RMS, ESR, DHHFeed burns in your tube,
Web two-oh and “me too”We couldn’t keep up with software
It was always rotting
Since the first bit’s been flipping
We couldn’t keep up with software
No we didn’t screw it
But we tried to refactor it